
Artist, administrator and teacher, born Lincolnshire, who studied at Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts, 1972–4, and at Cardiff School of Art, 1976–8, with an interval teaching in the Cayman Islands. Began work as an arts organiser, notably with South West Arts, Exeter. Then in 1986 he returned to painting full-time, having established a studio at Tywardreath, near Par, Cornwall. He became a renowned traveller who walked hundreds of miles in wild places to paint “a celebration of the wilderness and the idea of a journey or series of journeys”. His Thoreau’s Country was featured at Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985; John Muir’s High Sierra at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1989; and Rainforest Diaries at Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in 1993.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)