Where does your inspiration come from?

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I find inspiration in the smallest of things; it can be a texture or color a small detail in something. I like to experiment with mediums and often you stumble onto something you can use later on.

While working on one project I will often get ideas from that for another.

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When did you begin your artist journey?

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I have always been artistic for as long as I can remember, as a kid I would see art or objects and appreciate it even then at a young age. I would draw constantly, but I keep getting drawn to 3 dimensional objects. I have an engineering background, so I see things finished in my head and I work back from there, over the last 20 years I have created sculptures for outside my own home. All this time I was honing what it is that I do.

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Do you have experiences that impacted your art?

I think my engineering background has definitely had a big influence in how I approach my projects. I like that industrial feel about what I do, the rawness of the materials, I don't want to hide everything, I like the honesty in how it looks. I put a lot of thought into the internals can be accessed to replace an LED strip if it fails, all this has to be thought through.

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Do you feel your art challenges existing barriers?

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Yes I think it does, I rarely see anyone else doing what I am doing.

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What do you aim to say by the themes in your art?

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My themes are eclectic. Themes for me are a snapshot of anything of interest, not just to me but to others, it can be another artist like Mondrian or a period in motorsport history, I research and build those features into what I do and anyone who knows that history or subject gets something from it.

 

How would you describe your creative process?

 

I may have a theme or subject that I need to work to so that also has to work into your materials, colour, size and ratios and scale, I will sketch over and over till I think I am in the right place.

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What are your long-term artistic goals?

 

I came to a decision 12 months ago that before I leave this earth, I am going to do something that I am passionate about. I feel what I do is of high quality, and I am not going to sit on my hands and watch the years go by.