Artist, born in Perth, who attended Wimbledon School of Fine Art, 1993–4; St Petersburg Academy of Art, Russia, 1994; studied history and French at Bristol University, 1995–6; and graduated in fine art from Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford, 1996–9. He won the Sotheby History of Art Prize, 1993; Spink, Newbury Spring Festival Painting Prize, 1996; Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize, a scholarship from Brasenose College in Oxford and was shortlisted for the RA Richard Ford Award, all 1998; and in 1999 gained the Profumo, McKie Award and Vivien Leigh Drawing Prize. Later group exhibitions included Mostyn Open 11, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, 2000; An Elephant Station, Vilma Gold, 2001; and Wilson Stephens Fine Art, 2002. Among solo shows were Head, Pace Collection, New York, America, 1998; and The Eiger Sanction, Michelin Building, 2000.