I was born just after the 

  Second World War, 

  in England's Derbyshire Peak

  District, and spent much of

  my formative years on the Hill

  Farm shown above.   

Since those happy, childhood days, life's path has taken me from the hot dry deserts of the Middle East to the steaming Eastern Jungles; from the snowy wastes of Scandinavia to the sweltering heat of Africa; around Cape Horn in a roaring gale and onto the beaches of Australia's Gold Coast; and on and on......

Such travels have allowed me to see much our small World; the good and the beautiful, the bad and the ugly. Throughout it all, I have never lost my enjoyment of art. 

Now, as a Brit who has finally settled in America's Carolinas...

.... time allows me to paint much more. 

I hope that each of my creative works will stimulate its beholder to sense a little of that which remains unseen; (those small, magical fragments of the individual artist which inevitably find their way into every work), and that this insight may encourage visitors to bring a piece of my art into their personal environment.

I believe that Art can sometimes tease the 'awe and shudder' in one's psyche and, in doing so, bring a little closer the touch of that which may be considered grace.

A favourite quote:

"I was drifting sand in the wind of the world's anger.

 It is just fate that has brought me back alive."

 

- [TU FU, CHINESE (721-770)]