I graduated from Cheltenham with a BA (Hons 1st class) in 1978. In 1979/80 I studied Art education at Margaret St, Birmingham and gained a P.G.C.E. I taught art until my retirement in 2014.
My main interest is in producing evocative symbolic abstract imagery.  I use the iPad extensively not only to sketch on but to digitally model work in progress. It helps to visualise ways forward.

Most of the recent work has centred on three broad themes; “Limitary Patterns” “Binaries” and “Allegory”.
I am interested in the profound evidenced in the everyday.

My photography and figurative work directly feed into, and inform the abstract work. This output continues to oscillate between photography, computer art, sketching and painting, between figurative and abstract, and between digital and actual. That doesn’t mean I am lost or without focus, just on the move with an holistic vision.
The impact of social media around my practice also continues to promote this flux.  I constantly reference the history of my own output which leads to motifs and interests resurfacing with new twists. I enjoy not knowing where this will lead.

Older work can be found in these (self published) catalogues:

100 iPad drawings made in 2014 is available at ‘2014: 100 Drawings‘

Photography work from 2008 is available in the book ‘Dark Peak Distant Shores’.

Sculpture, 1975 – 2005 is examined in a retrospective study ’30 Years’ .

Landscape Photography and Poetry in “Monochrome Land” .

Landscape photography exploring a transition from the scene to the surface in. ‘Divergent Landscape‘

Updated 2025