Phew! At last I’ve finished my large oil painting The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Revelations of Saint John. It’s finally done after several months of hard graft, and at over 2 metres in length It will be sometime before I’ll attempt anything as ambitious. Now that Spring has arrived, smaller scale landscapes suddenly seem very appealing.
I was born in Newton Abbot, Devon. My father was a UNESCO expert and so much of my childhood and youth spent in Syria and Cyprus. After a year’s Art Foundation I Studied Fine Art, at Cardiff College of Art, followed by teacher training in Birmingham. In 1977 I went to Kenya and worked as an art teacher, there I traveled extensively and developed an interest in the artistic traditions of the African Culture. In 1980 I moved back to…
I was born in Newton Abbot, Devon. My father was a UNESCO expert and so much of my childhood and youth spent in Syria and Cyprus. After a year’s Art Foundation I Studied Fine Art, at Cardiff College of Art, followed by teacher training in Birmingham. In 1977 I went to Kenya and worked as an art teacher, there I traveled extensively and developed an interest in the artistic traditions of the African Culture. In 1980 I moved back to London to work on own art and rented a studio at the Metropolitan. During this period I was working along-side many emerging artist in Wharf, Wapping at that time. I was employed as a play leader with Camden Council from 1982-1992.
I worked on art projects with the children, painting murals. Following further teacher training and social work jobs, I decided at the millennium that I would devote myself again to painting. To that end I began attending weekly life classes and I had a studio built in the garden of my house in Northwood. Almost all of the art on this web site has been produced post 2000 and since 2006 I have been working part-time at Harrow College. In January 2007 I began work on Stations of the Cross, fourteen paintings on the Passion of Christ, for Pinner Parish Church. I have now extended my work on this religious theme to paintings on ‘The Women of Jerusalem’ and a second series of The Stations of the Cross, this time in a more traditional form.