‘My paintings are evocations of light inspired by the relationship of the lover with the beautiful. Founded in a lyricism of colour, to a degree they are like the compositions of the musician transformed into colour, or inclining toward the taste of the chef de cuisine when he creates a meal. They are not impressions of something but, rather, expressions emanating from the joy of seeing. In a sense the object [of perception] is unimportant and yet it grounds the paintings, and creates a context for the expression which would not be possible in an object-transcending abstraction. Fashion is not the creed here, nor 'contemporary' the vernacular. From this point of view there is a broader perspective available to us, one which Monet found in the spirituality of water and Turner found in (and was transported by) Light’.
1965/67 Colchester School of Art - Dip AD Foundation - tutors: Peter Blake, Francis Bacon, John Nash amongst others.
1972/80 Founder member of the Beshara Design Centre, the Industrial Buildings Preservation Trust and Rotherhithe Workshops Ltd in London.
1976 Attended the Beshara School of Intensive Esoteric Education Gloucestershire.
1981 Moved to the Scottish Borders to set up a studio/gallery and a picture conservation business.
1988 Established a new studio overlooking the Bosphorus in Istanbul - Turkey.
1989 Commissioned to live in Provence to work on a series of seven paintings for the interior of the recently restored Chateau du Tourreau, Vaucluse.
1990 - present Painting in Turkey, Scotland, France and USA. Restoring paintings on canvas and panel and works on paper in the UK.
2006 Foss Fine Arts, London.