I  graduated from Manchester College of Art and Design with a BA in Three-Dimensional Design, specializing in ceramic tableware followed by  a year's post-graduate  studies before working for many years  in publishing and television 

My route back to making art was via book illustration, and I have been commissioned by a wide range of publishers including Walker Books, Transworld, Frances Lincoln and Oxford University Press. To date I have illustrated over twenty books for both children and adults.
Watercolour is my preferred medium for my paintings and illustrations and I often combine this with pen and ink or pencil.

All  my prints are unique and hand-made, usually in small limited editions of no more than thirty. I use the relief print as my method of working, using either lino or wood from which to cut the image but  often combining the print with paint and collage.  The paper I use for my prints is either  heavy quality art paper or fine Japanese papers. 

Much of the subject matter for my work, particularly my prints,  derives from images and
stories of animals and birds,often with a stylized treatment much influenced by ethnic art.

I show my work  at galleries around  the UK and in Europe, and I have also exhibited at the annual  London
Affordable Art Fair for the last eight years, the Brighton Art Fair, and with the Association of Illustrators
at the Mall Galleries in London.

I am a member of the Association of Illustrators and I make my  prints at Oxford Printmakers and the
wonderful Ink Spot Press in Brighton.

Here are  just a few of the places I have shown my work in the past

Association of Illustrators IMAGES exhibitions, Mall Galleries London    
PrintSpace   South Bank London                         
Reading University
Said Business School Oxford
Radley College
Coast  - Camden London
Affordable Art Fair 2004 - 2011
Sanders Prints Oxford
Cornerstone Art Centre Didcot
Customs House Gallery, Porth Leven Cornwall
Arundel Castle Sussex
Pashley Manor Sussex
American Womens' Club, Bruxelles
Eastbourne Festival
Brighton Artists' Open Houses 2009, 2010
Oxfordshire Artweeks 1996 - 2011
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
Jelly Legged Chicken Gallery Reading
Magpie and the Mirror Gallery  Clifton Bristol