I was born in Derby but have spent most of my life living in the Cotswolds. I studied art at Redland College, Bristol and have taught art for most of my life. I now lecture part time in Art and Design at the University of the West of England in the faculty of Education.

My recent work is centered mostly around natural forms experimenting with scale and colour. I am profoundly influenced by my immediate surroundings and much of my subject matter is locally sourced.

Still Life is my chosen theme which is a genre that depicts natural and unmoving objects that I have personally selected, removed them from their usual context and placed them in a composition and arrangement which invites the viewer to take a new look and to take pleasure in what they see.

The feeling that I am endeavouring to create is a combination of the fragility and brittleness of the found natural objects and to experiment with scale and form.

My work has recently been exhibited in the South West of England at galleries including