What’s your favourite medium? Why do you choose to use these mediums?

I use everything I can get my hands on – acrylic paint, graffiti spray paint, thinners, lead pencil and charcoal. Pencil and charcoal are my favourite, they allow me to get very close to the artwork. When I am using lead pencil I hone in on one area and I can get lost for hours on shading, cross hatching and using the stipple effect. When it comes to colour I love airbrushing with spray paint. It’s quick and loud. It has a lot of volume and can be changed rapidly.

What inspires you the most?

Everything around me, the internet, digital, nature and people. I usually draw it on a piece of paper, make notes on my iPhone or capture it in my head.

You draw/paint a lot of portraits. How do you choose your subject mater?

From my day to day life, things that I read or see. Something will spark an idea and really motivate me to create a piece of art. It’s like putting a puzzle together, all the pieces come together at the end.

For example, the Red Ridinghood portrait it’s a woman who still possesses the innocence of a child within. Her tattoos were inspired by today’s tattoo culture. The wolf hood symbolises the dominant side of our society. When you read the story of Red Ridinghood there is a sense of her luring people in and in this case it was the wolf she lured with her beauty so she could catch him.

You could find an “Easter Egg’ in all of my work. It’s very personal and always means something to me. If you look at the Hunter on the basket Red Ridinghood is holding – this is the symbol of my father. There is always something I add in for fun.

With the American Psycho I loved the movie and Christian Bale’s quirky character. There are two versions for the American Psycho I created – the plain theme is how we see him; and the dynamic theme with the magenta splatter is how he sees you. Everyone sees the drawing differently, I might see it different to how you see it.

Tell us a little about your creative process.

Every piece of painting or drawing has to be done at the right angle. I usually start with a sketch, then work out the right angles, shadowing and how the fabric should fall – to do this I ask friends and family to photograph me or I use them in the correct pose. I then work out the scale, what sort of elements are needed and the medium I’m going to use.

Sometimes I have the entire picture in my head, I’m able to put it on paper straight away and things just flow, and it creates itself. Other times I do a bit of research before I start. Take the Red Ridinghood for example, I had to decide on the elements – a natural basket woven, small or big?  The tattoo on the woman’s arm was a result of research I did from tattoo magazines and children’s nursery rhyme books. It takes me around one month working on and off to produce my more significant pieces. Sometimes I spend a whole day on a tiny area as I focus on shading.

What else are you working on at the moment?

Some new ideas to do with lots of colours. I still do the pencil drawings as it’s more personal for me. But definitely, there will be loads of colour in 2019.

What do you enjoy doing while you are not creating art?

Spending time with my fiancé and two daughters, socialising and eating great food.