My work is inspired by history, sometimes that finds me illustrating stories from the world wars, other times it leads me to painting the remnant of an old piece of architecture in a field.
As well as my art, in 2020 I completed a PhD in Architecture at the Kent School of Architecture. My thesis explored the relationship between British war cemetery architecture and the landscape of the old Western Front in creating a spatial memorial. My visual work is intrinsically linked to my academic study, be that directly in the imaginings of intimate moments in the trenches, or the layers of memory that cover the whole landscape.
I live and work on a National Trust estate near to Exmoor with my wife Kate and our two sons, Fernley and Wilfred.
Solo Exhibitions
2019, Illustrating the Great War, Great War Huts, Suffolk
2022, Artistic Possibilities, Talbot House, Poperinge, Belgium
Published Works
Memory, Landscape and the Architecture of the Imperial War Graves Commission in Landscapes of the First World War, eds. S. Daly, Martina Salvante and V. Wilcox.
Writing the War: Battlefield Guidebooks and the Establishing of an Essential Touring Narrative with Mark Connelly in Tourisme et Grande Guerre, eds. Y-M Evanno and J. Vinvent
Routes of Remembrance: Exploring the Ypres Salient and its Battlefields, 1919-1939 with Mark Connelly in Journal of Belgian History, 2021, 1/2
Select Previous Clients
Barnstaple Museum
BBC
Chiltern Railways
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
FourFourTwo
National Football Museum
National Pastime Museum, U.S.A.
National Trust
No Place Like Home
Private White V.C.
Talbot House, Poperinge, Belgium