I trained as an art teacher in London some years ago; later, I left teaching to focus on my own work by way of an HNC Art & Design course and by revisiting printmaking at Putney School of Art. I moved from London in 2004 to Devizes in Wiltshire. Since this time, I have been developing various printmaking techniques and pursuing advanced visual studies in fine art at Wiltshire College.

With the stimulus of the Wiltshire landscape, I have been keen to record ideas, drawings and designs in a series of workbooks; these I use as a constant reference in the quest towards a final piece of work. Inspired by the European Cubist and Expressionist movements, I also owe a debt to C20th British art movements like the St Ives Group; thus a number of influences, past and present, have been instrumental in the development of a mixed media and abstracted approach to my work.

Prehistoric Wiltshire has inspired the set of images on the website. The work has been greatly influenced by the stone circles of Avebury, as well as other ancient sites in Wessex. In my working practise, I use ‘prepared papers’ for collage; relief and intaglio print elements; inks, acrylics and oil paint. There is often a variety of media on a single surface but, at other times, I use previous experiments to produce prints and paintings in their respective medium alone.