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Making art is like constantly looking round the corner only to find another corner. Who knew that corners could be so compulsive. I want my audience to come along and share my curiosity about the visual world.

My starting point is always the human narrative. Then there comes meaning - incongruous, ambiguous, awkward, humorous, absurd or even absent.

 

Currently I paint a bit in oils and watercolour and use a lot of chalk and ink. I really like soft chalk pastels at the moment - you can slap on colour quickly and move it around easily. I also fill loads of sketchbooks - probably what I do most of. And, of course, charcoal, lots of charcoal

 

For those who like a Curriculum Vitae: Harrow and Portsmouth Art Schools - fine art. Then I was a railwayman for a number of years before becoming an arts administrator and a music manager. By 40, and for the next twenty years I was a full time freelance illustrator and cartoonist.

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I was also shortlisted for Artist and Illustrators magazine “Artist of the year” in 2019. This year one of my artworks was shortlisted for the New English Art Club open show at the Mall Galleries in London.

In 2021 I won prizes for my landscape watercolour painting of St Ives Harbour. 

My last major exhibition was in Aldeburgh with my potter wife Ann Lee entitled “Incongruous”.

I currently exhibit with Ipswich Art Society, Suffolk Open Studios and Artworks East.

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Last year I began running life drawing classes in the wonderful old Ipswich art School Studios. There are spring and autumn series of 6 weeks each.

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I lived in London for many years but have lived in Suffolk for many more since.