I was born in Tynemouth in 1945 and trained at the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford 1963-66.

I have been working in and from a site in the West Durham landscape for the past 25 years. I also find music - particularly that of Bach, Beethoven, Bartok, Shostakovitch and Jazz – a source for my compositions.

I have continued to work from the model throughout my career, and this has informed my murals and figure paintings. After I studied the Mexican muralists (Northern Arts Travel Award) I completed murals in Bishop Auckland, Carlisle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Morpeth, and Sunderland . Both mural painting and banner painting is a very different process to my easel painting. The murals, banners and work connected with residencies, necessarily have a pre-determined thematic and compositional structure evolved through many drawings, whereas the easel paintings that have worked best for me only reveal themselves on completion, often starting with a single small coloured drawing.

"Through the Year" 3 of 6 pastel on paper each 152cm x 175cm Each pastel celebrates 2 months of the year in the landscape. £1050

"Bach abstract 1” 30cm x 64cm

"Midsummer Night Garden" oil on canvas 75cm x 183cm £1350

"Garden Triangle" acrylic on canvas 122cm x 152cm £1850

"Winter Heaps" Watercolour on canvas 145cm x 70cm £485

"Winter Landscape" oil on card 32cm x 40cm £350

"October Heaps" oil on board 34cm x 34cm