A little about me

I am a contemporary artist and storyteller working with oil painting and photography and digital art creating atmospheric, narrative-driven works that explore memory, place and emotion. My current focus is on building a body of work that transforms real locations into imagined scenes that invite the viewer to step inside the story.

I grew up in Oxfordshire and spent the first twenty five years of my career as a professional photographer, specialising in family portraits and commercial photography. Running my own business taught me how to tell stories through images and to notice the small details that often become the most memorable.

In my late forties I felt drawn towards a more creative and purposeful life. I wrote and published two time travel adventure novels, began life drawing and exploring art, and founded The Oxfordshire Project, a business community that went on to host more than 800 events while supporting thousands of local business owners and many charitable causes.

Alongside this I created Mahwe, a community centred on personal growth, creativity and meaningful conversation. It was beginning to flourish when the pandemic arrived. Like many people, my world changed overnight. My events stopped, I became seriously ill with Covid, and my recovery from long Covid took well over a year.

That difficult period became a turning point.

I spent the next two years travelling around Britain as a nomad. Healing, walking, writing, meditating and reconnecting with nature which helped me rebuild my health and my outlook on life. During that journey I wrote my third book, The Journey to the Edge of Reality an Englishman's shamanic tale and gradually taught myself to paint.

It was also during those travels that I began to pursue painting more seriously. I moved from acrylics to oils and started exhibiting my work across Essex, Suffolk and Oxfordshire.

Today my paintings combine photography with traditional oil painting to create atmospheric scenes that sit somewhere between the dream world and imagination. Many are inspired by real places, but each tells a story that invites the viewer to become part of it. Whether I’m painting the quiet Oxfordshire countryside , a town scene or a sunset over a harbour, I’m always looking for the emotion hidden within an ordinary moment.

A real milestone came when Burford Gallery began exhibiting my work, a gallery I had admired for many years. It gave me the confidence to believe I had found the path I was meant to follow.

Alongside my work as an artist, I continue to write. My three novels have since been adapted into a ten part television screenplay, The Dryman, which is now complete and seeking production.

Looking back, my career has taken unexpected turns through photography, writing, community building and now painting. Yet each chapter has been connected by the same idea: telling stories that help people see the world a little differently and create a feeling inside of them. That remains at the heart of everything I create.