I am a contemporary abstract painter based in Plymouth. My background is in architecture where I spent over fifteen years working as an architect in London, Cambridge, and Bath and then a further seventeen as a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Plymouth.

Not surprisingly, my work still draws upon the lessons learned from architecture. In addition to the expected love of drawing, they have also heightened my awareness of composition, spatial structure and our dynamic sensory/emotional experience of space. In particular I am increasingly concerned with the way that the material language of a works’ construction can speak poetically. In painting it is a quality I admire in the work of artists such as Alberto Burri, Conrad Marca-Relli, and Pierre Soulages. But always the underlying goal is still the same – to recognise the meaning and poignancy within moments of everyday existence and to make them endure through painting