Much of my childhood was spent drawing and pursuing art and music, encouraged by my dad Jim, who was at one time a professional portrait painter before opening his own gallery in Victoria in the 1970s.
After finishing a degree in Fine Art in Canterbury in the mid 90s, I spent a number of years making art full time, exhibiting widely in many galleries and exhibitions across the UK and New York. I stopped in 2007 though as my attempts at trying to earn a living resulted in producing inauthentic work I thought would be commercial, rather than being true to myself and doing work I really believed in.
Since then, although I’m now better known for my idiosyncratic musical explorations as one-man band LC Pumpkin, I’ve still been quietly pursuing my art behind closed doors, and it’s only now after 19 years I’ve decided to once again show my work in public.
Always somewhat out of step with what’s trending, my work seems even more at odds with the mainstream than it did back in the early 2000s. While we find ourselves in an increasingly fast paced, synthetic, screen-based world which values impatient instant gratification, novelty and distraction from our physical surroundings, my work is about none of that - it’s slow, detailed, contemplative and, more often than not, takes a long time to do. I hope it acts as encouragement to observe, feel and connect with our surroundings more.
And as well as all the serious stuff, I also hope people get a sense of the playfulness I have when producing the work as, in the end, making art is often just simply a lot of fun.
Education
- One year foundation in Art & Design at Wimbledon School of Art 1992-93
- BA(HONS) Degree in Fine Art at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, 1993-1996
Selected Exhibitions
- Two Kats and a Cow Gallery, 'Exhibition 100', Brighton, November 2025
- CHASE Charity Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, November 2007
- Glyndebourne Opera Festival, May - August 2007
- The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, May - June 2007
- Ingo Finke Gallery, Summer Show, London, June 2007
- CHASE Charity Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, November 2006
- The Affordable Art Fair, Fairfax Gallery, London, October 2006
- Fairfax Gallery Summer Show, London, August 2006
- Fairfax Gallery Summer Show, Tunbridge Wells, July 2006
- Cambridge Contemporary Art, three person show, April 2006
- Fairfax Gallery, 'Colour of Spring', Tunbridge Wells, March 2006
- O Contemporary, Gallery Opening, Brighton, February 2006
- CHASE Charity Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, November 2005
- Brighton Art Fair, November 2005
- Glyndebourne Touring Opera Festival, October 2005
- Glyndebourne Opera Festival, May - August 2005
- Ingo Finke Gallery, Solo Show, London, July 2005
- Art London, The Art Movement, June 2005
- Collyer-Bristow Gallery,'Paper Works', London, April 2005
- NSPCC Charity Exhibition, Christies, London, February 2005
- Fairfax Gallery Christmas Show, Tunbridge Wells, December 2004
- Brighton Art Fair, November 2004
- CHASE Charity Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, November 2004
- Glyndebourne Opera Festival, May - August 2004
- Fairfax Gallery Summer Show, Tunbridge Wells, July 2004
- NSPCC Charity Exhibition, Christies, London, March 2004
- The Affordable Art Fair, Byard Art, London, March 2004
- London 2004, Byard Art, Islington, January 2004
- Art on Paper Fair, The Art Movement, London, January 2004
- Lewes Contemporary Art Christmas Show, December 2003
- CHASE Charity Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, November 2003
- The Affordable Art Fair, The Art Movement, New York, September 2003
- Byard Art, Cambridge Gallery Opening Show, September 2003
- Fairfax Gallery Summer Show, Tunbridge Wells, July 2003