Biography

I was brought up in East Anglia then subsequently lived in Oxford, London and the Caribbean. For the last twenty years I've lived in Brighton. This locality has huge variety and potential for artists, in terms both of raw material and sociability.

In May 1999 I opened up my house and showed with nine other artists and makers as part of Brighton Festival, and now open up regularly as The Dog House.

Printing and painting were my starting point, from which I gravitated onto plasterwork, collage and, finally, photography.

I've exhibited widely, and have had prints, collages or photographs included in shows at - for example - The Royal Festival Hall, Rye Art Gallery and Brighton Museum. Recently my photographs have been on loan to the council, and hung in the Chief Executive's Suite In Brighton and Hove Council Offices.

I've recently made the move from using a rather ancient Canon A1 and 35mm film to using a Canon 350D digital camera for all my photographs. Technically I'm pretty primitive and I suppose the overall structure and direction of what I do comes, simply, from ideas - and how best the idea might be carried out.