My aim is that the work should be created free from preconceptions, inheriting a character and life that may only be discovered through the actual process of painting.

I have found that by reworking the same image, at different locations, the drawing has broken away from purely representational concerns.

This approach has also encouraged my imagination when revisiting the work, in order to develop it, and has helped me to avoid merely illustrating first impressions. In turn, this has enabled me to immerse myself more deeply in the sensorial activity of painting. By not completely dictating direction, and allowing for an element of chance, the work begins to develop its own language and identity; thus creating a dialogue formed by internal responses to my subject and, I believe, ultimately creating a sense of personal history through the overlaying of paint.

The Royal Academy Schools 1998 - 2001
University of East London 1995 - 1998

Exhibitions and Awards
2003 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
2002, 2003 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
2002 March/April One Man Show Royal Academy Cafe Gallery London
2001 Awards Winner of Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac Award Royal Academy Schools
2001 The Affordable Art Fair London
2000 Mall Galleries Print Exhibition London
1994 Christmas Exhibition Eastern Rooms Gallery Rye
1992 Terrall Gallery Malaga Spain
1992 Spectator Spring Exhibition Barbican London
1991 Commission The Daily Mail & The Evening Standard A painting commemorating the opening of Kyoto Garden in Holland Park
1991 Pastel Society Mall Galleries London
1989-90 New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
1985-87 Ramsgate and Margate Public Libraries
1984 'Images' The Royal Museum, Canterbury.