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Jason was born in Malta, but brought up in England and Germany in his early days, then returned to Malta when he was ten years old where he is now based.

He started out painting rather late when almost thirty years of age, setting out in acrylic paint. Although self-taught in the sense that he did not take any formal training or tutoring, he learnt a lot by studying some great artists. To be exact, the only actual course he has taken was to learn how Fresco’ painting was done. Foremost, he set out to become a surrealist, so he honed his realism to begin with and these were his first two styles and lessons in technique, but through the time branched out to other ways of painting.

As he is concerned about current and world affairs together with social issues, he came up with what he calls ‘Socio - Political - Allegoric – Surrealism’, referring to what touches many people. Even his bird series delve into such issues and disguise human attributes with a bit of tongue and cheek, as he fond of satire. So the light hearted birds he comes up with are another way he likes to paint in.
Also, Jason feels that abstract is akin to surrealism so he does that as well, apart from his ‘Kinetic’ style, which is more about power, movement, light and flow which he tries to portray through smooth lines and colour.
For some of his pieces he occasionally writes a poem of his own to accompany the image instead of a summary.
What are prevalent in most of his work is that he looks for movement, expression, light and colour, giving vibrancy with a pleasing notion, when appropriate. If he can avoid black, then he does unless he wants to create certain moods. Often the paintings are made to evoke emotion, thought and reflection. The inspirations for them come from afar and wide, sometimes personal experiences or observations which can be poignantly touching to anyone who can give some time to a painting. Lots of ideas play a part for him to compose a painting, even drawing into fantasy.
Whenever he can, Jason takes the chance to paint being an amateur artist and currently he takes care of a business with his brother in the auto business.