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You could say I've been art adjacent for a long time. I primarily write what might dismissively be called "genre fiction" (whether it be thrillers or YA), or slightly less dismissively, "popular fiction" (as in, people actually read it!). But art has often cropped up as a theme, whether it be to comic effect in the short story, "The Concept", or at more depth in the novel, "Those Who Disappeared".

For some years I've been exploring avenues for actively moving into art as a practitioner, primarily to explore some of the ideas that can't readily be explored in written form. Then, in early 2023, after a short spell in Paris with a few other writers, the dam burst and I started creating in earnest.

Many of the works included here are very much on the visual side of the art spectrum, even if there are conceptual elements (in both "The Alchemist's Progress" and the "Visions of Hell", for example). "The Grave Tour" is the most "visual", but of course, even that also extends into book form. And going forward, as well as progressing further along the path with a couple of these ongoing projects, I'm also planning more installation and hybrid pieces, in part to test and push at the boundaries between art and literature.