"The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live." (Auguste Rodin).


(This website is currently undergoing a long awaited overhaul but, for now, it is what it is. Please excuse the overload...I hope you can find what you're looking for otherwise do contact me via the link.)

I have, apart from a terrible spell in the creative doldrums following my MA (Fine Art), loved to draw and paint and always carry a sketchbook with me.

I've studied at various art colleges over the years and enjoyed experimenting with different methods, approaches and mediums. Recently returning to painting after the unwelcome break was a very unnerving experience, when it seemed that any previous connection between my eye, brain and hand had well and truly disappeared and even lifting a paintbrush felt like a new and alien experience. Thankfully my love for the activity remained and I've persevered, retrying various mediums and eventually returning to acrylics which seem to suit this stage of my creative journey. Happily confidence is beginning to return.

Finding my way back to my creative path followed one of those extraordinary, random examples of serendipity, which resulted in me meeting up with Niel Bally again. I'd first come across him several years ago when I enrolled on a weekend Life Drawing course at Art Courses Wales, which is run by Niel and his wife, Sue, from his studio in the foothills of the Black Mountains. The timely reestablishment of this contact resulted in Niel taking me on as one of his mentees and I'm deeply grateful to him and to Black Mountain Painters, the group of artists co-founded with Niel over 10 years ago for their support and encouragement. I feel very honoured to have been accepted into the group.

We are currently working towards an exhibition to be held at The Courtyard in Hereford. This will start with a Private View on the 7th May and will run until the 6th June. It promises to be an exciting and eclectic show featuring some very talented artists and will be worth visiting. The Courtyard is a great venue with fabulous gallery space; an excellent café; a gift shop (where some of the artists will be selling prints and greetings cards during the exhibition), and two main screening spaces for films and live screenings, a 120-seat Cinema/Studio and the 400-seat Main House stage. It is a wonderful place for us to showcase our work.

I will be showing some new paintings made since joining BMP, and also a couple of older works.