It started at a very early age with crayons and felt tips, and the copying of cartoons and comic characters like Snoopy and Donald Duck. The interest progressed through most of Marvel and DCs characters notably Spiderman, The Hulk, and Batman, and onto comics like 2000ad and Toxic. Inspiration was found in Simon Bisleys work, with the ABC Warriors, Slaine, and his work for various Dark Horse titles including Lobo and the Terminator series here was a style that I really wished to emulate as did many subsequent comic artists, and so I spent a great deal of time painting, copying a lot of his work. Simon Bisleys work on Judgement on Gotham Batman V Judge Dredd was, I believe, his best work to date, and should you find a copy buy it It was during the second year at college that someone showed me a Sandman comic, with a Dave McKean cover. I was absolutely blown away. This really was something different, the combination of scanned images, photography and drawings producing something really real, something so atmospheric and moody. I then discovered Batman Arkham Asylum, illustrated by Mr McKean brilliant and very very dark. Hes also done several CD covers for people including Machine Head. Raygun magazine also brought itself into my life shortly after this about 1995, and that really was the coolest thing Id seen. The fact that designers still refer to this style of work with work these days is true testament to its effect at the time. Well done David Carson.Other notable names of visual inspiration over the years have been JK Potter very dark photomontages, Neville Brody probably responsible for the success of Nike as the brand it is today, Jim Murray Batman Judge Dredd Die Laughing, and more recently Brom very very nice work. Of course there are the moving image inspirational pieces. Films such as Se7en, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Fight Club, The Matrix, Memento, Hellraiser, Candyman, The Crow.......the list goes on and on. All have something in them or about them that is inspirational, whether it be a look or style, an idea, or a specific scene or piece of dialogue. To create something that causes an emotive response is something at the centre of the what is art debate that will go on for ever, but all of these films cause that in me, which I value as a positive thing.

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