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A few things worth knowing about me.

Much of my life has been spent searching for wildlife, usually in remote places, often with more patience than luck. Every miraculous encounter has stayed with me for good. I once spent an entire day on the back roads of Botswana searching for a fabled pack of extremely rare African painted dogs, and found them moments before sunset with thirty-two puppies, just a few weeks old, tumbling over each other in the dust. I have drifted through a delta in a mokoro, a very wobbly dugout canoe that sits barely above the waterline, sharing the water with hippos and crocodiles. On one occasion an elephant came marching directly towards us along a narrow channel hemmed in by thick reeds on both sides. I’ve met blue whales, the largest animals ever to have lived, and come face to face with Komodo dragons, which are considerably less reassuring. Lately I’ve turned to filming these wonders and making short wildlife films. I’ve travelled to southern Spain hoping to film the Iberian lynx, one of the rarest cats in the world, and after a long wait on a steep hillside, two tiny kittens emerged from the rocks on the ridge across the valley. Another I’m currently working on is about spoonbills, which are prehistoric-looking birds, somehow both goofy and majestic at the same time, and their recovery after being absent for centuries here in the UK.

For a year I lived in Valencia, studying at Berklee’s campus there, which meant I was there for Fallas. If you’ve never come across it, Fallas is a week in which the city comes alive with ear-bursting daytime fireworks, early morning marching bands, and of course paella. The city fills its streets with enormous satirical papier-mâché sculptures and at the end sets every one of them on fire. Sleep is not really a part of it for that week. I came out of the other side with a master’s degree and a permanently recalibrated sense of what counts as loud.

I’ve lived in Leeds, Valencia and Los Angeles, and each left a mark on me, but the place I kept returning to in my head was the quiet corner of Suffolk that I grew up in, so a few years ago I moved back for good. I’m hoping to one day buy a piece of land here, let it go wild, and turn it into a small nature reserve of my own. It feels like a fitting place to write from.

When I'm not doing these things, I compose music for film and television. I've worked on projects ranging from independent documentaries to major studio productions. For business enquiries, I'm represented by Michal Marks at A-Muse Management.