Selected Biography  

1940 Born in the Lake District  

1958-60 The Slade School of Fine Art 1976-79 West Surrey College of Art  

1969-2000 Taught Visual Studies in Further and Secondary Education  

1969-89 Art Examiner for the Cambridge Board  

2000 Moved permanently to St Ives  

 

My recent painting and prints have been inspired, in part, by the sea and the conditions of light in the Penwith landscape, but also by visual phrases from literature. The poem “The Four Quartets” by T.S. Eliot has philosophical ideas that are important to me, and it is also full of wonderful poetic phrases e.g. “Hints of earlier and other creation”, “Sea Howl”, “The vast waters”, which release a freedom in me to explore the visual language for new imagery.  

My work is built up in layers: gestural marks, combined with carefully drawn and placed shapes in the rectangle. Colour plays a dominant role in my decision making. The image is complete when the idea works in a new way and if I were to carry on working on it, it would become another idea.