I am an artist and illustrator living on the edge of a beautiful forest in South West England - a perfect setting to inspire work which draws on fairytales, fables, and folklore. I share my home with a long suffering partner, a duck, a parrot, and a magnificent black cat who may or may not be in charge.

If you’ve ever dipped into the original 1812/15 Grimms’ ‘Kinder-und Hausmärchen’, you’ll know they’re far from the sugar dusted tales we spoon feed to children today. Stripped of embellishment, awkwardly transcribed, and casually cruel, they offer a world where Rapunzel is impregnated, Snow White’s biological mother wants her dead, the devil’s wife bargains her way out of nightly beatings (with mixed success), and child murder, cannibalism, and domestic servitude hum along in the background like a sinister lullaby.

My work lingers in this uneasy space. It offers glimpses of fairy tales, sometimes tethered to familiar narratives, sometimes drifting free and catching almost recognisable figures suspended in the moment before the horror unfolds. These pieces are strange, unsettling, and intentionally deny the comfort of resolution. They carry echoes of current events, pop culture, and the looming sense of apocalypse that seems to hover over our political and societal landscape.

Working primarily in pen and ink, I create both two-dimensional pieces and intricate three-dimensional paper constructions, including a series of dioramas that invite you to peer in, though perhaps not too closely.

I’m drawn to conjuring characters for the fairy tales of today: solitary wanderers glimpsed in a snapshot, animal-headed oddities, and abandoned children standing quietly among long-eared creatures that hover somewhere between the endearing and the monstrous. These are stories without morals, fables without neat endings - just raw strangeness, a peppering of humour, and a flicker of the uncanny.

You can often find me (in person) at the Art Car Boot Fair www.artcarbootfair.com, where I sell original drawings and limited-edition prints. For details, visit the Art Car Boot Fair website — or reach out to me directly via the contact page.