Bio

I went to the Central School of Art and Design in the late 60s but subsequently followed an alternative career path, returning to art full time in 2008. In the last few years my work has appeared in various exhibitions at the Mall and Bankside galleries, including the Discerning Eye, the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition and the annual exhibitions of the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Watercolour Society.

Media

I have built up a substantial corpus of work in acrylic and watercolour, but increasingly my medium is digital. My limited edition prints are produced from digitally created images using vector graphics software. They are printed with archival inks either direct to Dibond composite aluminium panel or on heavyweight acid-free fine art paper. They are produced in very small editions, each copy signed and numbered. They are original works of art, each copy signed and numbered. They are not reproductions of paintings.

Sources and inspiration

Increasingly my work focuses on the architecture of Kent, Sussex and London, typically locations where the natural and man-made intersect. Water, shadows and reflections are enduring interests, together with the complexities and eccentricities of perspective.

I have also drawn weekly from the life model for nearly 40 years.

Working method

My pictures typically emerge from a lengthy and painstaking process aimed at distilling or abstracting the essence of a subject in line, shape and colour.

Working from reference photos taken on location supplemented by extensive use of satellite imagery and StreetView, I seek a synthesis of strong two-dimensional design with a heightened rendering of space and form. I am not interested in realism as such but I do obsess over architectural accuracy.