I'm a self taught painter and work predominantly in oils, specialising in portrait and figurative work. Commissions to date include Antony Worrall Thompson and the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. I also enjoy the challenge of painting outdoors, working at speed to capture fleeting clouds or a setting sun. The light changes so fast and the most dramatic effects can disappear in minutes! One of my self portraits was shortlisted out of nearly 10,000 entries for the Daily Mail ‘Not the Turner Prize’ and exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London (2005). In the same year I also featured on ITV’s ‘A Brush With Fame’, and my portrait of Antony Worrall Thompson was chosen as his favourite.

My paintings have been selected for The Artist and Leisure Painter competition/Patchings Exhibition in 2014 and in 2018 and I was awarded highly commended in 2013. My work has been selected for exhibition with The Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Mall galleries London on three occasions.

I'm currently running regular courses with The Henley school of art as well as workshops and demonstrations mainly in in the south east of England within an 80 mile radius of my home in Brill Buckinghamshire. I’ve also been running courses in the Costa Blanca Spain over the past few years and from this summer onwards I will teaching in at ' Arts holiday Italy ‘ in Tuscany and also I'm currently in discussion with regards to teaching in the Algarve next year.

• Portrait painting in oils - demonstrating and teaching how to capture a realistic and expressive likeness of a sitter from life or photographic reference.
• Portrait painting in acrylics - demonstrating and teaching how to paint a bold expressive head and shoulders portrait from photographic reference.
• Portrait drawing in charcoal - demonstrating and teaching how to draw a head and shoulders portrait life or photographic reference.
• Pet portraits in oils or acrylics - demonstrating and teaching how to paint a pet portrait from photographic reference.
• Impasto portrait painting in oils - demonstrating and teaching how to paint a bold dynamic portrait with palette knives from photographic reference.
• Plein air landscape painting in oils - demonstrating and teaching how to quickly capture a dramatic landscape under fast changing light conditions.
• Still life painting in oils - demonstrating and teaching how to bring a static subject to life in an expressive loose painterly manner.
• Art critique workshops - My aim is to help artists see how their artwork can be improved and developed in a positive and constructive way as well as understand how their work may be perceived by the view