I was born in Folkestone on the Kent Coast and now live near Canterbury.

Growing up art, dance, music and literature were the subjects that I excelled at and didn't feel like study to me. Later on I taught the piano for a while and also wrote a book, late a night, when the children were in bed. But when the children became older I yearned to be more creative again and taught myself to paint in oils. My Art took on a renewed vigour when the children left home. 

Initially I experimented with portraiture but soon found the person, the story and the narrative were the key to my compositional inspiration. Moving forward this has combined, figurative studies with classical fiction, music and movement in narrative works.

My art influences are Norman Rockwell, Caillebotte, Caravaggio, Zurbaran, Louis Majorelle, Sorrolla, Millais, Klimt, Sargent, Tissot, Rosetti, Waterhouse and the Pre-Raphaelite painters.