Artist Statement:

I’ve been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember.
My first art prize came at six years old — a book about horses… Quite fitting, really.

I’ve always had a fascination with animals, and humans, and how they behave. It’s not something I chose; more a like a lifelong condition, – one that I never want to be cured! That curiosity led me through all sorts of work — zoo keeping, farming, and eventually studying and teaching animal behaviour, especially in horses.

Art has run alongside it all. Sometimes it’s been a study of movement or emotion, other times just an excuse to sit quietly and look. My work isn’t about one style or subject; it’s about that shared thread of attention — to creatures, to people, to the small signals that tell you what’s really going on.

I’m a self-taught artist with a logical streak, which probably explains how I also ended up lecturing in IT for twenty years. But art is where the two halves meet — observation and pattern, instinct and detail. It’s simply how I make sense of things.