I currently live in Barton-under-Needwood and paint from my studio at ‘Ridware Arts’, Hamstall Ridware. In 1985 I received a first class honours degree in Fine Art from De Montfort University.

Painting from the gallery and adjoining studios, my work is landscape based with an emphasis on painting water. My approach embraces both representational and abstract elements and I push the character of the paint to extremes. I work mainly in watercolour, but I also enjoy carborundum collagraph printmaking and occasionally working in oils. Elected a member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, I teach classes and workshops in a variety of media and exhibit widely across the country. I exhibit regularly with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour at the Mall Galleries and with the Royal Watercolour Society, where I won First Prize in the 21st Century Watercolour Exhibition in 2005 and again in 2008.

Personal Statement:

“I have always regarded drawing as the seminal process from which all art forms grow. Drawing as mark making is an intrinsic part of being human; everybody does it but developing a language of drawing and painting that can express feelings and emotional responses is one of my aims. My paintings are concerned with landscape, both in broad expanse and in close up detail and express both the dramatic and subtle ways in which light transforms a subject. A recurring theme in my work is the depiction of water, as it provides a consistent challenge. In the seascapes I try to portray the feelings of being exposed to the power of the elements. Moving water and things moving within water provide a much more complex variety of visual responses. In contrast to this, painting still water introduces a different set of challenges where objects float or are suspended within degrees of transparency and where depth could be unfathomable”.