A former student at the Royal Academy Schools, and a founder member of the Stuckist art movement, his work has been exhibited in the UK, Europe, and the United States.

Formerly Programme Director of Fine Art at Canterbury Christ Church University, he was a PhD scholar there between 2018 and 2021, completing an autoethnographic investigation into his painting in 2023.

He works alone in his studio, but sometimes in collaboration with self- styled con-artist Dan Devlin, who published Talking to Louise Bourgeois with www.susakpress.com.

‘My work is a dialogue between me in my studio and paintings that seem to gain holds on me – Joseph Highmore’s Mr Oldham And His Guests, Annibale Carracci’s The Butcher’s Shop, Daniel Stringer’s 1776 self-portrait for example – and stories and ideas that swill around in my imagination and memory.

Evelyn Waugh described his friend Anthony Powell’s fictional characters as being like fish that come towards you in their tank, look at you for a while and then disappear in the murk, and that seems an apt analogy to my painting process.’ April 2023 His book, Basic Drawing (pub.