My introduction to the art world was through architecture which I studied at Glasgow School of Art.  It was there that I was first given the opportunity to draw the human figure, an experience that overwhelmed me.  To view the human figure in a totally different way, to discover its magnificent design is a continuous joy and inspiration that has never left me since that day fifty years ago.

I eventually left architecture but its discipline and beauty have remained with me as is evident in all of my work but especially in my printmaking.  I am a designer by profession but a printmaker and draftsman by avocation.

My training was classical under the influence of such men as Joseph Sekalski, Mackintosh-Patrick and Willie Bone, eminent artist and scholars who demanded creative thought and masterful execution in all mediums at all times.  It is this heritage that I have continued in my own work and in my teaching.

For almost thirty-five years I have devoted most of my working life to art education preparing individuals for fine arts and the design industry, conducting workshops and jurying shows.

Upon retirement I realized with sadness that, other than my printmaking, I had neglected to develop my own personal work.  I have therefore embarked on a journey of restitution to MYSELF!  I have immersed myself in illustration, landscape painting, life drawing and printmaking.  It is a personal journey of discovery.