Sam was born in York  during the Summer of 1984. After finishing school in Selby, a small mining town in North Yorkshire, Sam was accepted into Leeds College of Art and Design where he studied fine art until 2002. After his studies Sam enlisted in the British Army, joining the Royal Engineers and specialising as a Bomb Disposal Operator. Sams journey from Selby to his small art studio in York has taken him around the UK, over the deserts of the Middle East, into the jungles and plains of Africa, across the grass prairies of North America and through the storms of the South Atlantic. 

 

Sams pieces are very much informed by these experiences and places.

 

Sam paints in oil and acrylic on canvass. He depicts landscapes , figurative and surrealist pieces. Often depicting one of his three great loves, nature, animals and his family. Over the past two years Sam has started to experiment with innovative pieces exploring the issues of ecological sustainability and the impacts of fossil fuels and carbon emitting technologies on the human and non-human world. 

 

He lives and paints in York, with his wife and small menagerie of rescued animals.