Gallop Art Print

I’ve always enjoyed the calming nature of the natural landscape and the complete diversity from around the world that it can bring with visuals that are almost worlds apart. I intentionally add specific subjects or focal points to my paintings as a way to further translate the vastness of these same landscapes while using them to add different emotions that the viewer can interpret.

I also enjoy including these subjects because I can craft a natural narrative through human and animal moments, to bring a visual relationship between life and the environment. I think that horses are majestic animals and I think likewise about the wavy plains and distant mountains in the colourful warmth of the dusky evenings that they can wildly roam within.

Going back to skateboarding and the Herbert art space, as well as Coventry/Leamington Spa as a whole, it has tremendously influenced my work. Although Leamington Spa is my local town, the city I relevantly speak of, Coventry, is located just 8 miles north and essentially a second home. Travelling into that city for my own purposes when I was a kid sky rocketed inspiration in me because there was a sense of ‘going into the big city’ and because it gave the feeling of potential and excitement from such a young age. Coming from a small town as Leamington Spa I always had the excitement and motivation to explore and grow towards something bigger, and to explore the infinite possibilities of larger places, with creativity being my figurative and literal escape.

But more specifically, Coventry is a city known to be of resilience, mainly because of how it was completely flattened during WW2 which reset the city and forced the location to truly start again with being built back up. I think there may be a sense of poetic narrative in there with being an artist and trying to make something of myself in this industry to any kind of any level when it’s a notoriously difficult direction.

My favourite way to slow down is to sit down and paint, it brings out a feeling of complete tranquillity in me while also being productive through that creativity that I love. I’m also a skateboarder, and while it can be seen as an intense activity it’s actually quite the opposite by removing you from the pressures and business of life while also providing a level of satisfaction in the midst of society’s chaos.