Graduated from Cardiff College of Art and worked as an Industrial and Architectural Designer and Illustrator until he moved to West Wales to become a full-time painter. Has taken part in many solo and group shows and has work in private collections worldwide. Art practice includes oil paintings, watercolours, monoprints and drawings, illustrative and portrait commissions, sculpture, black and white landscape photographsand aerial photography.

Watercolour painting has played a pivotal role in my development as a painter over the past 15 years. Following a career as a designer/illustratorI returned to watercolour painting almost exclusively for five years in order to ground myself in the demanding discipline of working with such a technically
unforgiving medium. From this I moved into painting in acrylics, and subsequently oils using painting techniques that retain the fluidity, and the light-reflecting and transparent layering qualities of watercolour. Currently my work is equally divided between drawing, oil painting and watercolour.

In recent years my deepening Christian faith has led me to explore the relationship between faith and art, and has led to an exploration of religious iconography and the place of the spiritual in contemporary art practice.

There are many complications that stem from the ambiguous character of artistic creativity. My own work covers a very wide spectrum of art that can be understood, on the one hand, to be technological production (representational art), or it can be seen in existential terms as an extension of human self-creativity (non-representational art). My focus over the past few years has been on portrait/figure work that generally falls into one or other of the above categories. There are no obviously distinct visual boundaries between these areas in my work, although there are plenty of clues in the subject and content of the individual images.

When seeing an artist at work, Jean-Paul Sartre observed, ‘we do not ask "what painting ought to be made?" because we realize that artistic creation is a free adventure which cannot be predicted, calculated and designed in advance’.

And a quote by the artist Francis Bacon which sums it up for me… “The job of an artist is to deepen the mystery”