I’m an Artistic Practitioner in the Tensioned & Illuminated Interstitial Art-Science Boundary.

Having spent over 20 years as a Production Chemistry & Engineering Trouble-Shooting Consultant in the Oil & Gas Industry, I’m now reinventing myself as an experimental artist, pushing the boundaries of what a mid-life crisis is away from societal expectations.

During the 2011 Arab Spring, I was trapped in the Libyan Desert for over a week, subsequently suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and Depression. Now whilst pursuing my Art Practice specialising in 3D and 4D Mixed-Media autobiographical representations of Mental Health Illnesses from the inflection point of trauma through the journey of self-rediscovery on the path of recovery and how it can change us, I want to raise awareness to help other people in breaking the stigma and taboo surrounding Mental Health Illnesses, which are underrepresented in the Arts.

Whilst the solution to the Mental Health Illness is never clear cut or linear, I want to use my own traumatic experiences to help others through my art to show everyone suffering that there is light at the end of the tunnel – no matter how long it is!

Raising awareness of Mental Health Illnesses through Art utilising social media platforms, partially in a fun and engaging matter, using my background in and knowledge of the sciences & engineering, creating and making in the tensioned interstitial art-science boundary. I engage artistically with difficult and sometimes painful subject matter with dark humour, in new, exciting, bold and shockingly unexpected ways.

Due to the long tenure of my previous working-life, constantly travelling worldwide, my carbon footprint is astronomical, for which I have an embedded sense of guilt, especially during these times of manmade climate crisis. Therefore, my practice focuses towards upcycling and recycling of chosen ‘found’ items with tacit memory to imbue significance to my artworks.

I will more often than not be found cerebrally sitting in my old battered artist’s chair, staring off into the multiverse thinking forth-dimensionally, planning and selecting objects in the language of my art hero Duchamp – choosing ‘what is art’! Join me in doing the same.