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What is your favourite film of all time?

Wuthering Heights for the passion and the symbolism between dark and light.

What music are you currently listening to and why?

Bowie, Paul Weller, Red Hot Chile peppers.

Which living artists do you most admire and why?

Ian Mc Keever, James Turrell because the viewer has to distinguish between the hand of the artist and the hand of God.

Which deceased artist do you most admire and why?

Van Gogh for his commitment, integrity, intelligence and sensitivity.

Which exhibition that you have visited made the greatest impact on you and why?

Velasquez for the humility with which he treats his subjects. Frances Bacon for his unique visceral style.

What is the question you get asked most frequently about your work and how do you answer it?

How is it made? to which I reply that is by a process of addition and reduction.

What / who inspired you to be an artist?

Seeing a Dali painting when I was 7 years old, it opened my eyes to the whole world of the visual arts.

Can you tell us about where you make your art and what if any the significance of this location is?

In Wales where I have a strong sense of belonging and  connection to the landscape.

What do you like most about being an artist?

Having autonomy

What is your greatest achievement as an artist to date?

Having work accepted for exhibitions.

What are your plans for the coming year?

To make a new body of work about the dialectic between destruction and resurrection in nature.

To get more exhibitions.

To further develop my work visual art education workshops.