received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and is a Royal West of England Academician. As a painter and printmaker he has exhibited regularly in Britain and Europe, and in 2005 was artist-in-residence at the National Art School in Sydney.
He is co-author of 'Foundation Course : Drawing' published in 2004 by Cassell, and will feature in a forthcoming series of DVD’s on various aspects of painting and drawing to be published by Pickwick.
Until recently he was head of painting at Cheltenham School of Art , and is co-founder of the Jerwood Drawing Prize, an event with which he is still very much involved.