I trained in art at Northumberland College between 1966 and 1969. During the following period, whilst a teacher, I worked at Wallsend Youth Centre doing set design for productions, along with some at the Newcastle Playhouse Workshop. I taught art and pottery evening classes at South Shields Marine and Technical College, as well as screen printing posters for Bailey's Night Clubs (later to become a manager with them). When I moved to Scarborough I ran a sign writing business. Many years later, back in education, I was a tutor on the Humberside 6th form visits to Venice and Paris. Later I ran painting holidays in Tuscany where I rented great acommodation for the participants and took them to great sights such as San Gimignano, Certaldo, Volterra and F;orence. Since then I have painted, on and off, until I moved to Leicestershire where, having a studio - (and more time!) I have worked continually seeking to find my preferred style once again. My membership on the committee of the Leicester Sketch Club has helped me get fully involved with my work.
The first oil painting I ever did - when I was 14, 1961
Early college work in 1967
Early College painting (1966) on a trip to Blyth Docks - commonly referred to, by my tutor, as, 'God's catherine wheel.'!
Another College work - Still life 1969
Figure Study 1969
Devil Water, Northumberland, 1974
Sketch of the Trapeze Artists (1969)

Vendee Coastline with Umbrella - 1984
French Village in the Poitou-Charentes Region, Watercolour, 1989
Breton Cycle Race, Ink & Watercolour, 1989
Still Life in a Room, Watercolour, 1990
The Art Room Door, Watercolour & Collage, 1990

Fishing boat at Shoreham, Watercolour, 1990
Deckchair on Brighton Pier, Watercolour, 1990
Waterlilies, Watercolour, 1990
African Sculpture - from masks in the Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 1994
Door in Venice, Screen print & Gouache, 1992
Venice Doorway, Watercolour, 1992
Door in Venice, Acrylic, 1992

Torcello Cathedral, Venice, Watercolour, May 1992
Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Watercolour Sketch, 1992
Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice, Ink & Gouache, 1992
Venice Collage, May 1992
More reflections of Venice, Oil, 1992
Tuscany near Certaldo, watercolour, 1994
Tuscan Landscape, Watercolour, 1994
Turning Figure (2), Oil on Canvas. 2017
Model Rising, Oil on Canvas, 2017
Original water colour sketch for, ' Watching the Breton Cycle Race' , July 1989

,Watching a Breton Cycle Race, 1994
Megan and Daisy ( Watercolour 2006)
Crouching Figure (After a sketch by Giacometti), May 2017
Three Graces (from a life drawing), May 2017

Sentosa Marina, Acrylic on Canvas 2016
Sentosa Island, Singapore, 2016
Flamborough Head, Oil on Canvas, January 2017
Figure Study (Seated) - Acrylic on canvas, June 2017

Figure Study (Standing) - Acrylic on Canvas, June 2017

Still Life with Blue Jug - Acrylic on Canvas, September 2019

Still Life with Walnuts - Acrylic on Canvas, January 2020
Whitby, After the Storm, September 2017
Bamburgh Castle, March 2020
Dawn over Hadrian's Wall, April 2020
Goole Landscape, April 2020
Portrait of Megan, May 2020
Bottles from the bar ( after Manet's 'Bar at The Folies Bergere' ) , Oil, 2017 (Plus the original drawing of the abstraction of the bottles on the bar - done in 1990)
14th century African Sculpture to ward off disease, Oil and Watercolour Collage, June 2020
Turning figure, June 2020
Trapeze, (after Max Beckmann, 1923), Oil and Watercolour Collage, July 2020

199 Steps, Whitby, Oil, August 2020
Bayard's Cove, Commissioned work - Oil, October 2020
Still Life with black background, Acrylic, Nov 2020
Dancer, Acrylic, December 2020
Beacon Hill, Leicestershire - Acrylic, Nov 2020
Portrait, Acrylic, January 2021
Christian & Henry Haiku Portrait. Acrylic, January 2021
Mountsorrel Lock, Watercolour, February 2021
Whitby Abbey, Watercolour, February 2021
Mountsorrel Lock, Watercolour, February 2021
Villajoyosa, Spain, Oils, February 2021
Flamborough, Acrylic on Canvas, March 2021 - From a photograph by Dave Zdanowicz
Finistere Lighthouse, Oil on Canvas, March 2021

Lindisfarne with Derelict Boats, Acrylic on Canvas, March 2021
Still Waters, Acrylic on Canvas, March 2021
Volterra, Tuscany, Pen and Watercolour from a sketch in the early 2000s
View of Skiddaw, Acrylic on Canvas, May 2021
Simonside Hills, Rothbury, Acrylic on board, August 2021
Sidmouth Beach, Acrylic on canvas, August 2021
Whitby Abbey, Oil on Canvas, December 2021
Koh Samui, Pen & Watercolour December 2021
Fishing boats on Koh Samui,- Water colour, Thailand, January 2022
Whitby Waves, Oil on Canvas, June 2022
Whitby Abbey - Acrylic on Canvas, June 2023
Whitby Evening - Acrylic on Canvas, July 2023
Happy in the studio!
...and at Sky Landscape Artist of the Year, June 2017