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.

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

“After Britten” 40cm x 110cm oil on canvas £650

“Stone Forms” pastel on paper 50cm x 150cm £450

“Ship of Fools” oil on canvas 90cm x 90cm £750

“The Rite of Spring” oil on canvas 80cm x 100cm £700

“After Shostakovich” oil on canvas 150cm x 75cm