About

Working almost exclusively in watercolour, the subject of my work is predominantly landscape and cityscape, often taking both the mundane and the newsworthy events of normal life. Drawings made locally and on my travels fill the many sketchbooks which occupy several shelves in the studio, recorded over the years since leaving Winchester School of Art in 1987, travelling through the US, the Far East and Australia, returning in 1990 to live in London. Ideas for my paintings arrive randomly from any subject: landscapes; cities; street scenes; people; machines; online and other media. I strive, with varying success, for spontaneity and freshness, learning and improving by small increments from hours spent working with the medium. Watercolour painting is not easy, and certainly far more difficult than the perception most have of it being merely a preliminary sketching process for a "proper" oil painting. A more detailed biography can be read here.

Since my departure from the abstract sculpture I had been practicing, the first validation that my watercolour painting was going somewhere appeared in 2014 when I sold my atmospheric and poignant painting “Somerset in Flood” exhibited in the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition at The Mall Galleries, London. I have subsequently showed paintings at this exhibition again and with the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour. My work has been sold here in the UK, mainland Europe, USA, Australia and Mexico. We moved from London in 2022 to the beautiful county of Worcestershire where I now paint and host workshops from the studio and a local venue.

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”
​Camille Pissarro