I was born in Gibraltar in 1960. My father was in
the army so my family
moved around the world until we finally settled in
Northamptonshire
when I was twelve.
I have always had a vivid imagination and even from
a young age I've
found art fascinating. However, it wasn't until I came
to secondary school
that I was given the encouragement from my art
teacher to paint and draw
in many different ways and to let my own style grow
and develop, although
in those days my work was very abstract. My art
teacher encouraged me
to go to Art College in London but I chose to start
work instead.
On leaving school I continued to paint in oil, but I
was always
experimenting with different materials such as glass.
I had a few local
exhibitions but also ventured to London with my
work.
In 1981, I began to paint landscapes for the first
time. Initially these were
mostly sunsets and silhouettes, but in time I began
to paint pictures with
more colours and many different subjects. I met my
wife in 1982 and I
even gave her photographs of my paintings to take
home with her until
our next date! Of course, I made sure I was in one of
the photos too!
In late 1983, I sold my first painting to a recording
company in Milton
Keynes. This gave me the confidence to promote my
work to a wider
market. This was just the start. Over the next few
years I sold about eight
hundred originals to companies like MTV Europe,
The Gap and also
many private collectors, many of these being
commissions which have
helped to develop my unique style of painting.
I have paintings in corporate and private collections
in many countries in
the world such as France, Germany, South Korea,
USA, Denmark and the
United Kingdom.
The landscapes, I paint, are mostly ones that I've
created in my
imagination. I like to make the pictures busy so that
each time someone
looks at it they notice something else going on. I
prefer bright vivid
colours that grab peoples attention rather than drab
and boring.
I am passionate about my creations and as soon as I
finish a painting I am
constantly thinking of my next one. I never lose the
desire to create
another work of art.
The best thing about being an artist is that I start off
with a blank white
canvas or sheet or paper and gradually, as my
imagination takes over, the
colours flow until I finish with a colourful, busy story
that I hope will grab
peoples attention and take their imagination to
another level. I want
people to enjoy my art and see things in my
paintings that also mean
something personal to them.
We have 3 cats and I almost always paint a cat in my
pictures sometimes
you will have to look hard to find them!
My pictures appeal to both adults and children, each
person seeing in the
image what they want to see. A child may look at it
and see just a train, an
adult may look at that same train and remember a
ride they took many
years ago it is all a personal journey. Each one as
individual as my art
form.
