Key Themes and Creative Influences:

My portfolio largely revolves around Urban Landscapes, particularly focusing on cities like London, Sydney and New York City. Throughout my work, my goal is to replicate architectural styles and create art with a sense of realism. Key Influences on my work are art styles such as Urban Sketching and Realism. My main goal when producing artwork, particularly when producing more detailed works, is to try and capture the key parts of urban landscapes that tend to go unnoticed such as graffiti, textures, buildings and other parts of the urban world.

Types of media used:

For the most part, My Portfolio consists of artwork done with fine-liner and inks as they give me more precision and control. This is crucial to achieve a high level of detail in my artwork. Alongside fine-liners and inks, I also use other, looser, media such as watercolors for Urban Sketching and pro-Markers for Architectural style drawings. Using these types of media allow me to gain a sense of texture and colour that cannot be achieved with the fine nibs of an ink pen or fine liner. For more information on equipment used, visit the equipment tab on the menu.

Influences on my artwork:

The biggest influence on my artwork is Travel as I have been fortunate enough to explore the globe. This has had a profound effect on my art variety and preferences, choosing to focus on the variety and versatility of architecture around the world. This means that the artwork I produce is based from real-world locations and holds personal value.

Artists such as Stefan Bleekrode, Nathan Walsh and Stephen Wiltshire have also been large influences in my Artwork and my preferred choices in media, originally introducing me to the idea of ultra-detailed urban drawings. Information about these artists are located on the menu above.

Art Process:

My main process is to take a photo of a place, looking out for key points such as detail, composition and perspective. Once the resulting photo has been taken, I then replicate the photo with whatever media suits it most. As mentioned previously, my goal is to highlight the features of an everyday urban landscape. This means the locations chosen are often relatively obscure. A good example of this is the Waterloo station piece, a location that is seen by millions each year, yet remains relatively ignored. The contrast between a location that is an ordinary location for many and the detail of the artwork helps to highlight the busy and detail-rich environment of a London street.

The time it takes to do this process changes based on the size, media and detail of replication but can take up to 3 months for the larger and more detailed pieces. The most time consuming as well as the most complicated part of the process is the texturing. Textures are crucial as they can determine if the final piece looks realistic or not, as such, a lot of concentration and work has to be taken in order to have a good looking final product. This is usually done with the very fine nib of the 0.03 fine-liner as it lets me work in very small spaces and still keep a consistent texture.