British abstract painter & printmaker graduated from Chelsea School of Art, London with a Master of Arts degree in Fine Art, and now lives and works in Heidelberg, Germany

I create symbolic and urban landscape paintings that are influenced by painters like Antoni Tapies, Manolo Millares and Alberto Burri, and by the 1990s I had developed my signature style, which consisted of built-up surfaces that are scratched, pitted, gouged, and carved with marks. These works often give the impression that there is a message to be decoded: My "matter paintings" utilize unconventional painting materials such as plaster, marble dust, sand and ground chalk to create richly textured surfaces which add to the sense of depth in the works, often torn apart and reassemble the surfaces result in a rugged and tactile quality that speaks to his interest in exploring the relationship between the materiality of art and the physical world. 

For me, "matter art" is a movement concerned in the richness of textures and the evocative power of material matters, and my later works continued to reflect my pursuit of creating art that requires internal discovery both on the part of the artist and the viewer. Although many painting are monochromatic, they incorporate colour to create a sense of drama and tension within the works.