“I was born in Warwickshire in 1971, moving with my family to Cadgwith Cove, Cornwall in the late 1970s. I trained in Fine Art at Falmouth and Birmingham Schools of Art and have worked as an artist an illustrator since then, with advertising, theatre and opera design, book illustration, mask making, murals, figurehead restoration and sign-writing running alongside my main love of mixed media collage and oil painting. Over the years I’ve donated many pieces to charitable auctions and I’m a firm devotee of the Make Art Not War movement. I’m pleased to donate this little oil to the auction in support of civilians caught up in the terrible situation in Ukraine. I’m very fond of Dala horses, carved in one hand for children. Their simplicity and beauty always moves me when I see a very old one. I’ve kept this one for myself for quite a while, but I hope now it can do some good for others.” https://sjbfineart.com/