Samuel moved to the city to study Fine Art at the University of Chichester. He stayed in the area and works as an art instructor for adults with learning disabilities. He returned to the University where he once again took up painting and completed his Master’s degree.

Samuel describes himself as a mixed media artist working in acrylic paint, acrylic ink, oil paint, oil stick and charcoal on his work.

Samuel struggles with the idea of being a painter but rather an artist who draws with paint and other materials.

He represents the human form in his work but toys with scale and proportions, he never looks for a true or perfect figure. “People are not perfect so why depict them as perfect”. He is concerned with capturing emotion or feeling. The work speaks strongly of his direct engagement with sociable and uninhibited environments.

In his most recent work Samuel uses photography, he then redraws the scene from a combination of memories and photographs working quickly to capture the moment. The photographs are often using a panoramic view or a fish eye lens or are multiple images taken from a variety of different angles in the room. Samuel moves around the area or through the crowd. As a result straight lines seem to bend and perspectives become skewed. Working in such a way he is able to encapsulate what it felt like to be in the drawn environment. The intentional use of bold fluid charcoal lines evoke movement in the works and persuade the viewer’s eyes to be drawn around the entire canvas.

Influencing artists include Henri Matisse, Toulouse Lautrec and Pablo Picasso.

2006	Degree Show, University of Chichester
2007	“I Am Joy” Exhibition, Boys Club, Chichester
2008	Oxmarket Competition, Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester
2009	Critical Political (Solo Show), Joy Gallery, Chichester
2010	Sedition Group Show, Chichester Guild Hall, Chichester
2015	XI years later Group exhibition, Gallery 9, Brighton
2018	Dual Exhibition, Electric Lady Gallery, Chichester
2018	Work exhibited at WOTAB Gallery, Littlehampton
2019	Work exhibited at Coffee Lab, Chichester
2019	Work to be exhibited at Bricklane Gallery, London (Postponed due to Covid-19)
2021	Solo show H&S Coffee, Chichester
2022	SAM² Exhibition with Sam Bailey at Morisot Arts Crane Street Chichester
2022	Grayson Perry’s Art Club Exhibition at the MAC Birmingham
2023	Humanity Exhibition at Sotheby’s London
2023	Humanity Exhibition at Project Ability Glasgow
2023	Humanity Exhibition at Brighton & Hove Museum
2023	Worthing Open 2023 at Worthing Museum & Art Gallery