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My two main areas of specialism are authorial narrative illustration and pencil drawn, computer manipulated animation. I have set up a working space in Hackney Wick in east London where I run an animation studio and self publish my books. All my personal work is based around a long standing research project which focuses on the absurd and its relationship to visual and written communication. I am interested in How fantasy, nonsense and the inexplicable can take on the semblance of 'normality'. The language of science is one element which I look at extensively in my work, exploring how this language can be used to represent the absurd and what effect this has on the narrative. I explore these subjects using narrative illustration and illustrative animation, creating printed books and short animations. My animated work is represented by Shorts International and is in the private collection of Jean Pigozzi.

 

 

 

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