The Milk of Human Kindness Drawing

I am a British artist, living in Denmark. I came to art later in life, having worked for over a decade as a journalist and radio producer with the BBC World Service and Arts programmes. Originally I studied Medicine at Oxford University, but I came to realise that this was a decision taken for the sake of others, and I needed to find my own path. Life had knocked me off balance at an early age, with an early separation from my mother, and again as I was coming of age, when my father died prematurely leaving me without immediate family. In retrospect, art was there all along, but I needed to find the confidence to pursue it, and the means. I grew up in the north of England, lived in London for many years and have settled in Copenhagen, Denmark. The key concerns in my practice have stemmed from life: the unpredictability of circumstance, absence and presence, the condition of the outsider or foreigner, the marginal and the discontinuous. Landscape and place; feeling at home in many places and nowhere.