Personal Profile

DOB: 04. 01. 73    Nationality: GB    Languages: English and French

Since leaving Art school, Jamies art has been mostly self-developed over the last decade. During this period, his desire to travel and experience life has been a key factor in Jamie’s creative development. He has lived without compromise in order to continue his journey of creative discovery, on his first trip to the French Alps Jamie discovered Taoism and felt a deep sense of connection to this philosophy. During this time, he learned to ski and he became increasingly connected to a sence of physical expression through skiing. This has had a huge influence on the way he feels for special composition and his creative outlook on the universe about him.

A trip to Japan deepened his interest in Buddhism and Taoism . Since then he has been fascinated with spontaneous creative expression, both in art and in all his activity. At this point he realized how important Eastern philosophy had become to him. 

During 8 years as a professional extreme skier, Jamie has learned how to find sponsorship and carved out a unique life for himself as an individual. Working professionally he has balanced his creative skills with skiing, designing and painting graphics for international ski brands and clothes labels as well as other ski related products. His designs have won new brand awards at ISPO (the worlds biggest outdoor trade show) . He’s skied in four continents and made first descents on some of Alaska’s wildest steep mountains. Jamie’s love for the outdoors has given him a unique perspective on the creative process. His experiences providing so much subject matter from which he can draw on. Jamie continues to use conventional methods to create his work but is highly skilled with digital graphics and so this is the primary method that he chooses today, this site is dedicated to showing you his work.


His Work

Jamie's work is charged with self irony and paradox. You may connect with his interesting take on spirituality, and his curiosity for Asian culture and aesthetics, driven by his love for pattern, repetition, composition and form. The paradoxical nature of his works reveals an uncontrived approach and and an internal conflict that is openly dealt with.





His works extend into his ongoing personal awakenings and celebrate man’s spiritual connection to nature and observes our ignorance towards nature too. Bold in colour, with an exceptional eye for composition and an ore for the beauty in pattern, Jamie works with multimedia and varied techniques but mostly with vector graphics.

Equally, Jamie captures messages within his flat block colour works, normally done in triptych in methodical repetition in a seamless manner, drawing on external influences and channelling them back to his audience, encouraging deeper reflection. He likes to amplify messages with paradoxical subliminal imagery. His personal path in life is constantly revisited through his works, dipping in to aspects of the ironys of life. He celebrates this knowing and unknowing, opening and closing, with a humouristic and happy approach.

Zoom Productions, ispo 2006 Jamie participated at this year’s ispo as the featured artist at the Zooom Productions stand in conjunction with Redbull Think Tank. He used some of his latest print techniques to reproduce an existing ‘master race’ drawing with stencils, painting directly onto MDF in large format to create a stunning result.

        

Mod art Jamie recently exhibited work at Mod-art in Munich as part of the Mod-art exhibition. Mod-art celebrates the action sports cultural scene through art, music, and fashion showcases leading artists from this world.

Keep a breast Keep a breast in Anglette France, Jamie contributed a plaster cast of a pair of breasts to the Keep a breast exhibition in Anglette France, sponsored by Roxy. The cast along with a number of other casts, painted by artists from the action sports scene was auctioned off along with others in order to raise £60,000 for breast cancer research.

Space Junk Gallery Space Junk Gallery, Grenoble, France. Jamie Had his first solo exhibition as an artist in October 2004 in the Space Junk gallery, the gallery is dedicated to showcasing artists coming from action sports culture and is growing very quickly. Space Junk is Jamie’s main gallery and he exhibits work in group exhibitions there regularly.

    

Munchies Restaurant Work from Jamie’s latest collection is on exhibit at the Munchie Restaurant in Chamonix France. Jamie is currently working on a new series of prints and he hopes to show case them very soon on the site.