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Nerd turned artist painting a blend of obsolete tech and today's digital dilemmas w/ a dash of humour

08/06/2026

Insurrection v2.0

Commission complete and headed to Paris. Unique. Oil on canvas 70x70cm. 💾

05/06/2026

Thoughts?

28/05/2026

Summer show announcement: “Nostalgia Bait” 🕹️

I’m honoured to be showing alongside awesome artists Rhys Brown and Exhibit 69. One night only. 30th June 2026.

Live printing, interactive fun & original artworks.

📍Candid Arts, 3 Torrens St, London EC1V 1NQ.
🎟️ Early bird tickets on sale. Link in Bio.
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15/05/2026

“Ozempic: Better Living Through Chemistry?” (2026)

Limited edition of 20 hand-painted 3.5” floppy disks. Framed, boxed, and mildly suspicious.

Fatboy Slim’s iconic album Better Living Through Chemistry was a favourite of mine growing up. And the floppy disk on the cover adds an extra layer of joy for me now. The question I couldn’t stop asking: what’s on the front of that disk?

One possible answer lands in the present: Ozempic. It’s a genuine medical breakthrough. But it’s also a cultural craze, a status symbol, and a shortcut marketed with the kind of confidence Big Pharma can afford.

Science does improve lives. Clearly. But it also creates new expectations, new pressures, new industries, and new ways for the human body to become a “project.”

This is partly a tribute. Partly a question.

Slogans age. And science, like fame, tends to get used in ways nobody put on the label.

Strictly limited to 20 pieces, only available at “Art of Pepita x Fatboy Slim” as part of Artists Open Houses in Brighton, (UK).

This piece (amongst others) will be available this weekend and next, 11-6pm. The legendary Fatboy Slim has also signed a few of these… but be quick if you want one.

📍55 Woodruff Avenue, Hove, BN3 6PH (UK)
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06/05/2026

Welcome to the future. But now. 💾

04/05/2026

Happy May 4th — may your Wi-Fi be strong and your design flaws remain strictly theoretical.

“Death Star Plans” (2026). Oil on canvas, unique, 70x70x4cm.

There’s something comforting about a conspiracy theory that’s only mostly ridiculous.

A moon-sized weapon, built by an empire, taken down by a “flaw.” In the films it’s noble sabotage. In real life? It feels more like planned obsolescence with a better uniform.

Once you notice how many things are slightly worse than they need to be (batteries, cables, updates) you start wondering if the weakness is accidental… or profitable.

Somewhere in a dark boardroom, someone definitely pitched the exhaust port as a “long-term revenue strategy.” And somehow, that’s the scariest version.

This piece is on display today, and weekends all month, at the “Pepita x Fatboy Slim” Artists Open House. 55 Woodruff Avenue, Hove, BN3 6PH.

03/05/2026

“Ozempic: Better Living Through Chemistry?” (2026)

Limited edition of 20 hand-painted 3.5” floppy disks. Framed, boxed, and mildly suspicious.

This piece started as a riff on Fatboy Slim’s iconic Better Living Through Chemistry — specifically the floppy disk on the cover, and the question I couldn’t stop asking: what’s on the front of that disk?

One possible answer lands in the present: Ozempic. Along with its counterparts, it’s a genuine medical breakthrough. But it’s also a cultural craze, a status symbol, and a shortcut marketed with the kind of confidence only modern chemistry can afford.

Science definitely does improve lives. But it also creates new expectations, new pressures, new industries, and new ways for the human body to become a “project.”

This is partly a tribute. Partly a question.

Slogans age. And science, like fame, tends to get used in ways nobody put on the label.

These 20 are only available at “Art of Pepita x Fatboy Slim” as part of Artists Open Houses in Brighton, (UK). With so many awesome artists (see the list) also showing it’s worth coming if you can! ⭐️

Free entry to all on the first four weekends and both Bank Holidays throughout May, 11-6pm. The legendary Fatboy Slim will be signing purchases on Bank Holiday Monday May 4th.

📍55 Woodruff Avenue, Hove, BN3 6PH (UK)
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29/04/2026

Thank you everyone who bought one, two or all three of my Super Mario Bros triptych prints. These reflect on the absurdity of the games and myths so many of us grew up with. 🍄

Now sold out, they were released in collaboration with the awesome Stowe Gallery here in the UK.

Since this was a timed release the numbers of each print are different. The edition sizes are listed here.

The prints have all been signed and numbered, and will be sent out over the coming days.

Thanks again to for their support in producing such a beautiful representation of my work. Looking forward to working together again! 💾⭐️

17/04/2026

By Mario 3, Nintendo had reached that dangerous phase where success starts making people ambitious. Fortunately, in this case, ambition was exactly the right response.

Everything about the game felt bigger, sharper, more considered. It had that rare quality sequels sometimes achieve when the designers clearly get what was good about the original, but also refuse to be trapped by it. New worlds, new power-ups, new visual ideas, an over-world map that made the whole thing feel less like a straight line and more like a proper journey. It still felt like Mario, but now with more swagger.

It also had all the oddball logic that Mario became know for. As children, we accepted this with the same calm dignity with which we accepted most impossible things in games. Of course, the plumber can throw fire beneath the sea. What’s the problem?

I do remember the conversations it led to though. The fake scientific explanations (alkali metals anyone?). The elaborate attempts to justify something no one involved had ever intended to justify. We were effectively doing fan-theory physics before the internet industrialised that impulse.

For me, this says something about how imagination actually works. Children are often accused of believing anything, but I don’t think that’s quite right. What we actually did is collaborate with the fiction. We met it halfway. We built little bridges between nonsense and meaning so the world could continue to hold together.
That instinct never really leaves us.

This piece is partly about the absurd pleasures of Mario 3, but it’s also about iteration. The way things can get better. The way an idea can be refined without becoming sterile. I think that’s one of the quiet lessons games gave me early: each version doesn’t have to be a copy of the last. It can be a fuller expression of the same underlying energy.

You rarely get it right the first time. You keep building, refining, and trying to preserve the spark while improving the structure. Nintendo did that beautifully here. They made something bigger without losing the charm.

Print available today only (until 3pm UK time). Go get yours before they’re gone. 🕹️💾

17/04/2026

Sequels are tricky. Even as kids, we got that.

If something has already become sacred to you, the follow-up has a problem. It has to surprise you without betraying you. It has to feel familiar while also delivering the thrill of seeing the world made bigger.

To me, Super Mario Bros 2 managed it, even if it cheated slightly.

At the time, of course, I had no idea it was effectively another game dressed up in Mario clothes. I just knew it felt different. Stranger. More dreamlike. You could pick things up. Throw things. Play as different characters. The whole thing had a slightly unstable energy, as though Nintendo had raided somebody else’s imagination and decided to redecorate it. Well, that’s kinda what happened.

Nintendo America deemed the actual Japanese sequel too much like the original and far too hard. So they simply repurposed the game Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Changing the main characters and other details to make a new Mario sequel.

Beyond the trivia, I enjoy thinking about what we were willing to accept in these games… as long as the music was cheerful and the controller responsive. Smash bricks with your head, survive impossible falls, and generally behave like a compact force of nature, yet your fatal allergy to reptiles might let you down. The rules were nonsense, and we accepted them without hesitation.

As ever, I’m fascinated by the myths and lessons these game taught us. Did they train us in selective logic? Ignore inconsistency when the reward is pleasure, progress or familiarity. Which, if I’m being honest, isn’t a habit confined to games. As adults, we do this constantly. In politics, work, technology, relationships, all over the place. We accept absurdities if they’re wrapped in systems we’ve already agreed to play.

Mario 2 felt bold. Weird. Unbothered by purity. A reminder that a series can survive a sharp left turn if the destination is interesting enough. Sometimes the thing that doesn’t quite belong ends up being the thing you remember most.

Print available from today only (until 3pm UK time) 🍄💾

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