I'm British but I was raised in Zambia. By the age of twelve, I was taking photographs and printing black and white images. I eventually built upon this interest by starting a career in the printing and publishing industries focusing on the reproduction of images.

I've travelled quite widely across about 25 countries and have lived in six of them for a number of years in each.

​In the early 1990s, the graphics, printing and publishing sectors transitioned from what was largely a craft skill to computer based methods. So I joined a systems manufacturer in the UK. My area of expertise became image retouching and manipulation on expensive Unix computer systems. I spent five years travelling the world for between six weeks and six months at a time consulting and training operators. It was during this time that I gained my skills in digital image creation and manipulation just as digital photography was emerging.

​My path to the art world was therefore unusual. Self taught, based on a lifelong interest in photography and grounded in an expertise acquired from the very earliest days of digital photography and its art derivatives.

​​Then the Apple Mac and Photoshop appeared. They represented another disruptive technology revolution and within a year, they'd taken over the industry so I left employment to take a masters degree in Multimedia Design with a view to gaining leading edge skills in the new digital domain. I also got married, and my first son arrived. So a turbulent time but also much joy.

​The subsequent ten years saw an effective IT revolution take place. They also saw my second son arrive. Whilst I continued to use my imaging skills, I was exhausted by the IT industry and so took an MSc in Natural Resource Management at Cranfield University in the UK, as an intended career change, continuing the art as a hobby.

​I left the UK again in 2014 and have been settled in Cyprus since 2017. Of my two sons, one is now a doctor and the other an ecologist. Both live in the UK and I'm in constant touch with them.

I'm now focused solely on the creation of art through the manipulation of my photographs, building on over thirty years of experience. It's an absorbing creative occupation with endless possibilities for different forms, feels and styles and is hugely satisfying when, after many days or weeks of work, there is a tangible result in the form of a unique image that I've created. There's often a disparity between what I set out to create and what finally emerges as the creative process becomes partly led by unexpected effects and outcomes of various processes. This emergence of the unexpected adds an element of serendipity to the work and is fun and gratifying as it opens up previously unconsidered possibilities.

I hope you like my work and thanks for reading

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