My work reflects my fascination with the landscape and in particular the effects of the human hand as it changes and modifies the landscape season by season.  I will see a scene which immediately brings together shapes, colours and textures into a unified whole and immediately catches my imagination and a painting is created.  The same scene at a different time and diffferent light will often have lost its inspiration.

My work usually proceeds with a rapid pencil drawing identifying the main features and often with some exaggeration to accentuate features.  Photographs will also be taken as a reminder of detail but the painting is made predominantly from the drawing.  Mostly I work in oils painting fairly thinly in one coat and with a focus on earth colours.

My background is in science and I was the Professor of Genetics at Liverpool University and the Deputy Chairman of the Environment Agency.  I have painted for many years mostly landscapes in oils.  My art training has been in drawing, particulalrly life drawing, with courses taken at Hammersmith School of Art and Liverpool University.  I have paintings held by two national collections, the Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead and the Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool. A solo exhibition was held at Shrewsbury School and I currently show work at the White Fox Gallery, Coldstream.  Apart from many local exhibtions I have exhibited with the NEAC, the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Academy, the Aberdeen Artists Society and the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists..