sycotropic aRT Experiments

Artist Statement

It all began in 1972.

I wasn’t born an aRTIST.

Did I choose to become an aRTIST?

Or did life choose it for me?

As a child, I enjoyed art. I learned by observing, copying, and understanding the world around me. Looking back, I realise I wasn’t simply reproducing what I saw—I was learning how to see.

I studied aRT.

I studied dESIGN.

For a time, I believed my future lay in directing films, telling stories through the moving image.

Then my father died.

Everything changed.

Loss became a turning point. It stripped away certainty and revealed something deeper: creating wasn’t a career choice; it was a necessity. In that moment, I understood that I wasn’t meant to become a film director.

I was meant to become an aRTIST.

Since then, my work has become an ongoing exploration of memory, experience, transformation, and identity. Every medium I have embraced has been another language through which to understand myself and the world around me.

I don’t create to decorate.

I create to question.

To make visible what is often unseen.

To transform experience into form.

My work is autobiographical—not because it illustrates my life, but because it grows from it. Every piece carries traces of lived experience, emotion, chance, and discovery.

I didn’t choose aRT.

aRT chose me.

My aRT

I have created for most of my life.

The medium has never been the destination.

It has simply been the language.

Over the years, that language has evolved…

Drawing.

Printing.

Sculpting.

Video.

Photography.

Music.

Each medium has taught me something different. Each has become another way of exploring ideas, emotions, and experience.

Then came an accident.

I discovered PU (polyurethane) in an industrial environment, splashed across walls and floors. Most people saw waste.

I saw possibility.

I recognised that this overlooked industrial material possessed its own beauty, energy, and unpredictability. It challenged traditional ideas of what art could be and what materials deserved to become art.

That discovery led me to establish PUart.

Initially, it became a commercial venture, creating bespoke work for businesses and private homes. It allowed me to push the material beyond its industrial origins and reveal its aesthetic potential.

But PU was never just a material.

It became a collaborator.

Its movement, chemistry, and behaviour introduced an element of chance that I learned not to control, but to work with. It taught me that creation exists somewhere between intention and accident.

Every medium I have worked with has left its mark on me.

Every experience has become part of my visual language.

The materials continue to change.

The need to create never has.

sycotropic aRT

This is where I find myself today…

As a human.

As an aRTIST.

Creating is not a choice.

It is an inner necessity.

It is how I understand the world.

It is how I understand myself.

Inspiration exists everywhere.

I see things.

I hear words.

I absorb moments that others may overlook.

These fragments settle within me until they demand to become something tangible.

Much of my work is autobiographical.

It grows from memory, emotion, loss, joy, conflict, and transformation.

The experiences I have lived through become the raw material from which new work emerges.

I don’t seek perfection.

I seek honesty.

My work is a conversation between conscious thought and instinct, between control and chance, between the external world and my internal landscape.

Every piece is a reflection of a moment in my life.

Not an answer.

But a question.

An invitation to look beyond the surface and discover something of your own experience within mine.

This is sycotropic aRT.

Not simply a style.

A way of seeing.

A way of thinking.

A way of becoming.

Influences

images - pharmaceutical - electric - trauma - chemicals - hospital - light - words - physics -engineering - medicine - science - illness - shadows - questions with no answers - grief - imagination - lived experience - surgery