I was born in 1988 in Gibraltar. I live and work as an Artist in Gibraltar.

'I admit that I have an addiction. An addiction to making and thinking about art, and I wish

not to cure it. Sometimes I delve into different projects that excite me,

constantly changing and experimenting with new ideas, subjects and styles.

Other times I just simply work and see where it takes me. I consider Drawing

an important part of my artistic process, where I can visualize where I'm at in

the present moment and also as an aid to future projects, ideas. Although I

produce a great number of paintings it is not my only medium to communicate

ideas and thoughts. I tend to use anything as a possibility.

I believe that Art is therapeutic for the maker and for the viewer, the viewer

gravitates to what they need, what is lacking in their life. We heal with Art. I

would find it hard to imagine a world without art, I think it would be a very very

dull place. Without Art reality would be intolerable. Aside from Painting I also

make hip hop music, I work with loops, and write the songs and record them

under the moniker Moo-D, a name that was given to me by my fellow rapper

friends when we were around 14 years old. I enjoy the process of making

videos for the music, lately I experimented with artificial intelligence to see

what results would manifest. I get lost in both painting and music, what I can't

communicate with one I communicate with the other.

I studied Fine Arts at Loughborough University where I obtained my Degree in

Fine Arts. I focused mainly on drawing and painting, I undertook a foundation

course in the first year, learning different disciplines of Art, but decided that

Fine Arts was the freest discipline and was most suited to me, where I could

develop the work on my own. Since then I have been working consistently

and exhibiting in Gibraltar and Spain.

Art keeps us hopeful, the world and its troubles that we are constantly

reminded of can throw us into depression. Works of Art can carry hope, the

hope we need to get through the day. It can make us less lonely. Pretty works

can worry some serious types but sometimes, we need joyful and other times

more darker serious work.

I was always drawing in School as a kid. I had trouble focusing but drawing

was a way of making sense of what was being feeded to me. Teachers

motivated me to paint, and once I had a taste of it at sixteen, I was hooked. I

looked at Bacon and Schiele at the time and Francis Bacon is someone I still

turn to. I appreciate all types of Painting, contemporary and classical, but the

fauvist movement and the post impressionist movement, Gauguin, Van Gogh,

Matisse, move me the most at the current moment.

I tend to work from Life, Photographs and my Imagination. The Solecisms

require a lot of focus, a work that is intricate in detail with many imaginary

figures, a painstaking process of filling squares to complete the work.

Sometimes I return to it but other times I'm more erratic and just want to get

messy with the work.