I have painted, pretty much, as long as I can remember (my father was a painter before me).  I have lived in North Wales for much of my life, but also spent years in London as a chef in top end restaurants and around the world as a private chef. I never stopped making art over this time.

Returning to North Wales, I was finally able to devote myself to my art and to undertake a fine art degree at Bangor University. I graduated in  2020 and was awarded the Dr Barbara Saunderson Memorial Prize for Fine Art, which  is “awarded to a student on the BA Honours Fine Art course for outstanding achievement”.

Over the course of my degree, I have developed an increasing interest in the  potential of a minimalist approach and the use of a minimal palette to clarify the shape and form of the landscape as lighting varies, a journey which has caused me on occasion to look outside the usual boundaries of "landscape".

More generally, my interests are eclectic but particular influences in respect of landscape include artists of the post-impressionist period: Derain, Dufy, Bomberg and Vlaminck. In respect of figurative work, my heroes are Auerbach and (supremely) Freud. Peter Prendergast remains a particular inspiration in respect of my main love, the landscape of Wales, while a new inspiration has been Roger Cecil, following the superb exhibition of his work at the Royal Cambrian Academy in 2018