About the artist

I was encouraged to draw and paint when I was very young, little did I know then that it would develop into a life long passion.

I paint mainly in watercolours and oils, mostly on site using a fairly restrained, subtle palette, where the essence of a subject can be seen and experienced, and painted successfully (hopefully). Sometimes I work in my studio when the subject requires more consideration or the weather's not suitable.

My work has been regularly selected for the open exhibition of Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, where in 2022 one of my paintings won the James Fletcher-Watson Award for best use of watercolour in the exhibition.

In 2020 I was elected as a full member of the Wapping Group of Artists, a select and very competent group of 25 plein-air artists who paint in all weathers up and down the Thames and surrounding area.