My paintings embody my optimism and my enthusiasm for life  --  my joie de vivre.

I use various media – acrylic, gouache, watercolour, pen & wash, and pastels – to portray:

• the vibrancy, theatre and personality of urban life
• the freedom of landscape and seascape
• the pattern and humanity of allotments and beaches
• the colour and magic of people and parties
• the warmth of bars, restaurants, and domestic life including cats 

I use an imaginative use of colour and a constructive draughtsmanship to realise my artistic objectives. 

Amongst artists who influence me are: the Scottish Colourists and their successors, Raoul Dufy, Paul Klee, Paul Cezanne, L.S. Lowry, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionist generally, David Hockney, Mary Fedden, Shirley Trevena, Howard Hodgkinson, Bernard Vogel, and Ken Done. 

Many places give me inspiration including: Paris, Provence, Amsterdam, Rome, Venice, Florence, Tuscany, Hong Kong, Sydney, New York, Boston, San Francisco, and, of course, my home in England: Winchester, the Solent, the South Downs and Glyndebourne.

I have had exhibitions at: the Winchester Guildhall (2); the Maltby (now Rowley) Gallery, Winchester; the Angelus Gallery at Winchester College; the Salisbury Playhouse (3); Alton; Lewes (2); and Cheltenham.

Hampshire Artists’ Open Studios each summer, and Winchester’s Making Merry weekend before Christmas provide regular occasions to enjoy and buy my work.  A selection of my paintings for sale can be seen and ordered through this website

I have a series of some over 50 greetings cards published in the UK by Trumpers World.  In addition, I publish artist quality prints, a series of postcards and Christmas cards.  All these different products can be seen and ordered through this website.

Recent commissions have included publicity illustrations for the Winchester Christmas Market, a painting for Hampshire County Council’s ‘Equality & Diversity’ campaign, a personal Christmas card for a client in Singapore, and a 2 metre long street picture.

I am now an art tutor.  I really enjoy the two classes I take each week at the Tower Art Centre in Winchester.

I graduated from the Bristol College of Art and Design as a graphic designer in 1974.  Later I took painting courses in Melbourne, Roehampton, Harrogate and Winchester.