I began my art training at the Birmingham College of Art and Design, studying for a foundation in Art and Design in 1968. I then went on to study at Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1973, gaining a BA Hons in Fine Art. On finishing my training as an abstract painter I began lecturing in London and the Provinces which spanned for 25 years. I am also a Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at the University of Central England and have been since 1988. Having exhibited extensively since my student days, I have built up an enviable international reputation as a landscape painter. My exhibitions have appeared across the country at prestigious venues such as the Mall Galleries, the Royal College of Art, the Royal Festival Hall and the Medici Gallery, London. My work has also appeared at municipal museums and art galleries throughout the UK as well as America most famously perhaps, my painting ‘Rape’ appeared in an advert for Volkswagen, achieving worldwide recognition and being exhibited in the Museum of Modern Illustration in New York. I am lucky enough for my work to have been shown in the Best of British Illustration exhibition for the last seven years.