I studied Printmaking for both my first and Master’s Degrees. Both deepened my interested in the printed surface. My first degree from Leeds Polytechnic led to work as a freelance graphic designer, setting up my first studio; in a printmaking museum. Whilst at the museum I began work as a college lecturer; teaching desktop publishing. That was the early nineteen nineties and a lot has changed since then.

By the turn of the millennium I was lecturing at Loughborough University, teaching on the undergraduate programme in Graphic Communication. Away from the University I continued my graphic design practice, which increasingly involved training print companies in design software and digital reprographics.

Beginning as a Loughborough based project, I developed a series of digital photo-composite images into a body of work called Constructed Spaces. Attracting great support and reviews, Constructed Spaces was the catalyst for leaving Loughborough and a return to private practice in 2003.

The next three years involved a mix of community arts projects and documentary photography.

Photography has always been at the heart of my practice and an unexpected eighteen months working on as a newspaper photographer both deepened my technical knowledge and - more importantly - extended my visual language, through the pressures of tight deadlines of newspaper work.

My eclectic practice is a marketeers nightmare; fine-art, graphic design, community arts, training and photography. This web site seeks to distil my current practice into a simplified message:

I am a photographer, who can teach what I practice, and practice what I teach.

The constant interaction of commercial work, training and personal practice means that I keep abreast of technological changes and further my visual language. This also means that commissioned work is carried out efficiently using best practice; that the training I provide is underpinned by real-world knowledge.