About

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  share my curiosity about the visual world.

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For me pictures must have a story; usually a  human narrative with meaning. That  meaning can be incongruous, ambiguous, awkward, humorous, absurd or even absent.

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Currently I paint  in oils and watercolour.  I draw with chalk pastels,  ink and charcoal.  I  fill loads of sketchbooks; drawing whats around me and from my imagination. (I recently started drawing all the teachers I had at school from memory.)​

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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. I was working mainly in newspapers and magazines and when the internet took hold the market for illustrators like me shrank dramatically so my potter wife and I diversified into running a seaside B&B and I went more into doing my own artwork

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I was  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.​

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My last major exhibition was in Aldeburgh entitled “Incongruous”.

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I currently exhibit with Ipswich Art Society, Suffolk Open Studios and until recently Artworks East. I'm currently not doing group shows but, instead, concentrating on building a new body of work for 2027.

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I have been running  life drawing classes in the wonderful old Ipswich art School Studios for the last four years. There are spring and autumn series of 8 weeks each.

 

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