Once upon a time there was a boy who loved to play the guitar, sing and make up songs.

After a while he recorded three albums and had a website built where people could listen, download and buy his music.

For fun, he bought and painted a big old Volvo bright colours and toured it around Europe and the UK.

Then he recorded and released a new song called "Yeah!".

Steve thought "Yeah!" might be good enough to tell lots of people about, so he made lots of paintings called PorterPortals to display.

He exhibited these artworks in outdoor public spaces, and waited to see what would happen ...

He also did some small gigs, so that if they wanted to, people could come and hear him play live.

When singing Steve usually accompanies himself on an acoustic guitar, which is where most of his songs get born.

Meanwhile he carried on with his day-job, making pictures and sculptures for sale, while doing lots of giant mural artworks in schools and other places.