Jon is a legend. Not only has he been an award-winning editor; a pioneering Flame artist; a founder of The Mill, Smoke and Mirrors, Nice Shirt & Raised by Wolves; he’s also a skilled commercial director specialising in visual effects-based projects often combined with a subtle and sometimes dark sense of humour.

As a director, Jon has made films for clients including Sony, Nike, Vauxhall, Philips, Shell, ITV and KFC. He is well known for his terrifyingly impactful public messaging for Streamwise, Stop Smoking, Network Rail and Safer Scotland, the last of which made such an impression on our Scottish rep as a bairn he’s now unable to discuss Jon’s work (not good for a rep).

As a Flame artist Jon has collaborated with some the world’s most famous and talented directors on features, commercials and music videos; including Danny Boyle (Trainspotting 1 & 2), Tony Kaye (Dunlop – The Unexpected), Chris Palmer (Orange – Bar Chase) and Danny Kleinman (several James Bond Title Sequences).

Industry magazines have variously described him a ‘wunderkind’ and a ‘wizard’, the latter of which he does quite look like. A late Pope once commented favourably on his work.

There are too many awards to list but Autodesk, the makers of Flame, created a one-off Special Recognition Award for his pioneering VFX work.

Jon has always approached projects with an appetite for a novel way of doing things, backed by his peerless knowledge of visual effects and his editor’s ability to tell a concise story. He has an unfeasibly large collection of guitar pedals and, despite growing up in Cheddar, fears cheese, to which he is badly allergic.