Born in Birmingham in 1940, he obtained a Diploma in Painting at Mid-Warwickshire College of Further Education in 1988.

During the mid 1980's after producing small landscape works in watercolour for many years, he turned to larger figurative work in oil, based on themes conveyed by the authors T S Eliot and Edgar Alan Poe.

Since 1992, influenced by the painters Richard Diebenkorn, Nicholas de Stael, Peter Lanyon and Ben Nicholson, he has sought expression through a series of emotive abstract pieces in oil, acrylic and collage. Originally stimulated by the unique landscape and light of the Suffolk coast, but going on to reveal the depth he still found in his native Warwickshire.