Welcome to my website. I’m a self-taught artist with a passion for painting in my spare time, particularly football themes and urban landscapes, but variety is the spice of life so I try other themes too.

For me, the special thing about painting is the way it influences my thinking and has a positive effect on wellbeing. Painting encourages a strong awareness of the world around me, pushing me to seek out beauty and interest which might otherwise pass me by; “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it” (Confucius). I’m fortunate to live in a richly varied area in Wallasey, in the northeastern tip of the Wirral peninsula. With open skies and sandy beaches on the Irish Sea coast, and the everchanging light and movement along the Mersey as I walk to work, there is no shortage of inspiration.

I’ve painted as long as I remember, and remember being thrilled when I won a painting competition in our local Fine Fare supermarket when I was about 9 or 10. I studied art at secondary school, but then focused on a career in the sciences and education and have worked at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine since 2014.

I continued painting into my mid 20s, but then it fell to the side when children came along, but have picked it up again enthusiastically since the Covid pandemic as a hobby alongside my full time job. So my portfolio is now growing and I will be adding new work regularly to this site in the coming months and years.

I particularly love the learning process of painting in oils, my preferred medium. Each painting has it’s own unique demands for how to build up the work, the choice of medium to use, and the technical challenges along the way, so in my blog posts I share these learnings which I hope other aspiring artists may find useful too!!