About me

I loved drawing and painting from a very young age so, on leaving school there was only one thing that I wanted to do. This led me to Berkshire College of Art and Design in Reading, studying Graphic and Commercial Art. On leaving college, however, I took up an apprenticeship at a private fine art restoration studio and for the last forty years I have been cleaning, restorring and selling fine art.

In 2016, after many years of denying my creative ambitions, I started to paint again and took up printmaking at my local arts centre, South Hill Park, Bracknell, and since then I have been experimenting with and learning different methods of printing.

My inspiration comes from the natural world, particularly birds. Everything about them is fascinating, every specie with it's specific character, their ability for complex communication and learning, to navigate across continents and survive the harshest environments. I live in the Berkshire countryside where we have a family of red kites nearby, they soar and swoop, tumbling over our heads; it is this ability, to fly, that captivates me. In the case of the kites, it seems they do it for sheer joy, either as a family or a solitary bird they ride the thermals, circling higher and higher just to glide gracefully down to do the same thing over again, they aren’t hunting or performing their amazing mating rituals, they are just flying! 

One of the most amazing spectacles I have ever seen was near Glastonbury at the Ham Wall marshes: just before dusk we assembled by the marshes and waited for the performance to start. The anticipation was electric, then it began, small flock by small flock the starlings started to arrive, maybe 30-40 birds at a time flying low over our heads calling out to each other, beating wings they came and they kept on coming, more and more joining together into one mass of fluid sweeping movement, dipping down and then rising up and turning, continuous streams of individual birds creating the most amazing show and then, all of a sudden, they dropped on mass down to their roost, the sky emptied and it was over! It was this experience that was the inspiration for my work 'Murmuration' which was chosen for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025.

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