I was born in Bristol in 1965 and studied
Fine Art at Bristol Polytechnic. For three years I worked almost exclusively in stained glass, but in 1990 I returned to painting. Within twelve months I began to discover my own artistic voice, working with sudden confidence and intensity on a series of abstracted landscapes.

For two and a half decades I took inspiration from within the shores of the British Isles, seeking to evoke the world of nature - hills, mountains, water, skies, trees, and above all, light.

As my paintings gradually became more simplified and emptied out, I felt a learning to experience the vast spaciousness, silence and simplicity of the Arctic. Between 2014 and 2017 I made several visits to Finnish Lapland, culminating in over sixty paintings evoking the otherworldly beauty of the Aurora Borealis.

It is sometimes observed how my work has the capacity to quieten inner noise in those who spend time with it, and touches and evokes 'otherness'. I'm glad when I hear that, as the paintings and prints are intended to offer space for contemplation, a threshold to something bigger - an opening into stillness.

I've been represented by Crane Kalman Gallery in London for over thirty years. I live and work near Bristol and have three grown-up children.