After graduating from Hornsey School of Art (Middlesex University) in 1985 I did a Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship combined with an Artist-in-Residency at Christ's Hospital School in Horsham, West Sussex.

I exhibited widely throughout this period including, amongst others:

• The Serpentine Gallery in 1985
• The Business Art Gallery at The Royal Academy in 1986
• The Leicestershire Collection for a few years
• The Contemporary Art Society Art Market for 3 years
• Several private gallery shows
• The Guardian’s Art for Sale in 1992

I wasn't making enough money to live on but felt compelled to keep producing more new work for demanding galleries - which they could still always sell. This took the pleasure out of painting and I lost my way for a while; I was succumbing to the pressures of the commercial art market and decided to step back a bit. In 1993, I took up full-time employment to support my painting.

A spinal injury in the mid 1990's left me disabled, suffering chronic pain and unable to paint for a number of years. I underwent spinal surgery in 1999, and in time, I regained a lot of my mobility and gradually got back to painting again.

In the last few years, I've got very interested in photography and have done only a little painting, but I plan for this to change soon.

My images are about the way we live now, the strangeness of the world and our place within it; about how we treat other people and manipulate the environment regardless of the consequences. I wonder how this affects us all.

I'm interested in skepticism, rationalism, humanism, sociology, architecture, media, science, technology, industry and history. About recollections of past events, about the inconsistency of memory and the unreliability of perception.

I'm also interested in applications of new technology and scientific theory - such as Quantum Mechanics - and the visual representations of such concepts. Also, anything else that is interesting, dramatic, mysterious, annoying, beautiful, ugly or surprising. When I was younger, I contrived a specific agenda. As I get older, the field is very much wide open.

That probably covers most of it.

Like everyone does, I grew up with my own distorted view of how the world worked; why people behaved in certain ways; where things went to at night..

Trite as it may be, I once had a very vivid dream about a place called the sixth land. It was a bit like here, but a bit different and strange as well. The dream was potent enough for me to remember it clearly for days afterwards, even enough for it to reoccur in some more dreams. I had managed to develop a feedback loop between waking and dreaming, and now I had a bit of a narrative going on.

I've forgotten all that now, though it was all laid out in my notebooks which are stowed away in the attic. But the name has stayed with me and is a kind of shorthand for the way I see the world - when something unusual or notable catches my eye. It encapsulates the far away; the different and exotic, as well as the mundane and commonplace.