In July of 2012 I successfully completed an Illustration and Design degree at the University of Sunderland where I received a First Class Honours for my final project. This project I completed was a series of six children’s books titled Bennie and the Jelly Beans which I wrote and illustrated myself. I am now currently in the process of writing and illustrating my own novel which I hope one day will be published, My influences are writers such as Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac and I am also influenced by 1960s counterculture and music.