When I am not painting, I spend my spare time walking my spaniels, taking photographs (especially wild flowers and butterflies) and learning Spanish.

I love living in southern Spain, where my studio with a wall of windows looks out over the mountains. The light is seriously inspirational! I try to paint every afternoon these days, and for me, an afternoon when I don´t paint is a lost afternoon.

I would be hard pressed to think of a friend or family member who does not have a piece of my art on their walls and I love the idea that they live with it and enjoy it. But I also like to sell my art commercially to help fund my studio and costs

I put a lot of my art on specialist Facebook sites and as a consequence an American flautist, Laurel Zucker, bought the right to use six of my paintings for her CD covers, including Cellular shown below.

Cellular

Acrylic paint and pencil on paper. 10 x 10 inches

INFLUENCES 

My main art influence is Abstract Expressionism.
My favourite artist is Cy Twombley – he moves me to tears!
I studied Swiss geometric abstraction for my PHD. This was quite a calculated and considered artistic way of using colour, not really my ‘style,’ but gave me the opportunity to study every colour theory under the sun, from scientific to expressive/psychological.

I adore colour: it is immediately expressive and powerful.

I use floral motives in an abstract manner to create a frame for colour expression.

I am enjoying increasingly abstract expression releasing colour and light intuitively. I photograph and film my work looking for tiny fragments where colour and light are balanced between control and chaos.

I enjoy displaying my art on Instagram where I can experiment with photography and video to create powerful colour sensations.

I took part in Malborough Open Studios in 2025 and look forward to exhibiting in Murcia, where I now live.

BIOGRAPHY

University of Canterbury – BA(Hons) History and History of Art (1985-88)

Colchester Institute – Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Colchester Institute – BA Art and Design (2002-05)

University of Essex – MA Modern Art: Painting and its Discontents (2003-05)

University of Bristol – PHD Art History (2005-2009)
I didn’t get much out of my art and design degree as I felt I learnt very little about painting.