I was always dissatisfied by the static nature of drawing. In my head my characters were alive but when channelled through the hands and forged onto the page, my imaginings could never be truly realised. With this in mind, animation was the logical next step. Through drawing, documenting and re drawing, I was able to breath life into the meandering of my subconscious. Starting with just a simple mark on a page, a camera, and no real plan or sense of direction, I layered marks one by one while photographing the process. With time, they collaborate to form a person, thing or a place and so begins a fierce negotiation with the drawing. This inevitably unfurls into an unplanned story.

In the case of adrift (2012) the figure who emerged from the cacophony of lines quickly asserted himself to be autobiographical. He was an alter ego representing myself at that moment in time. He clutches his bag and quietly endures the world while dreaming of something better. A red balloon offers solace and thus like an evolving sketchbook the pages snap to life to offer him a new direction…