Biography

Born in Sunderland Co Durham in 1960 he saw the last ship being launched on the River Wear in 1970 from the slipway whilst holding his Grandfathers hand, himself a foreman shipwright.

Leaving the North for Brighton Polytechnic in 1980 for a Fine Art Printmaking degree, he stayed on the south coast for five years. The Royal College followed on being awarded a Henry Moore Bursary. His Masters degree show featured massive woodcuts of birds and animals.

A fellowship in Fine Art Printmaking at Gloscat in Cheltenham in 1987 offered studio space in the ornate Museum of Art and Science in Stroud Gloucestershire. It was during this research period he accepted his first Artist in Residence position in schools. This workshop provision continues to this day across many counties in the UK. He has remained in Stroud and its surroundings since.

This creative and skilled engineering area has in turn triggered his artistic endeavour in areas of metalwork, ceramics, film, interior design and new media. In many of the commissions for large scale Public Artworks he attempts to in still in them a sense of awe similar to that experienced on the slipway on the River Wear.