I went to Bradford College of Art to study Advertising and Design before moving to London, eventually getting a job as an Art Director. There I worked on press ads, posters and TV commercials for clients like Apple, Pepsi, the Sunday Times, Radio 2 and a few brands no-one has ever heard of. Thirty years later I was living in Deal and trying to remember anything I’d ever learnt about painting, which wasn’t as much as I thought.
For the most part, very little happens in my paintings: empty streets, solitary buildings and decaying sheds tend to fill the canvases. Stillness is a key element, that and a sense of time having passed by.
Mostly, I sell from home. But I have shown work around Deal, Folkestone, Dover, Whitstable and in Margate, including the Turner Contemporary Space when the Turner Gallery was still under construction. The work shown here is just a small sample of what I’ve been up to.
