Sam's work is inspired by a multitude of influences. Including memories, life experience, dreams and contemporary culture. Themes, such as the fast paced growth of technology and our role and interaction with it, is a constant source of fascination.  Running concurrently with painting Sam's inspiration is fiction and non-fiction books alike and painters such as De Kooning, Baselitz, Basquiet and De buffet. It is both the autobiographical and external cultural factors combined that help inform his work.

Sam's multi- disciplinary approach to Art means he will often combine collage into paintings and vice versa. His work is elegiac but like's to combine this with a bold style and humorous overtones.

Sam was born in Bristol in 1977. A childhood spent in Rural Somerset was followed by a move in his teenage years to London. Here Sam took History of Art classes at A’ level, followed by a brief stint at SOAS University studying Archaeology. Although aesthetically and academically stimulating learning about ancient cultures and artefacts, (all influential themes in his work) the life of analytical scientific study was not his calling. An inner creative spirit was burgeoning to come out.

The Visual Art pull was strong and In 2008 Sam enrolled onto an art foundation course, at City College Brighton. After exploring the many pathways that Art Foundation has to offer, Sam graduated at Brighton University in 2013 in ‘BA Fine Art Painting’.

Currently living in Worthing, Sam continues with his daily painting practice incorporating many of his other passions, including music, collage and writing. Each medium feeds the other, often combining, enabling him to develop and resulting in, his own unique visual language.