Following a brief spell in Advertising, I trained as an Art ,teacher completing a PGCE at Liverpool. 

My professional career took place in St Helens then Shropshire where I completed a further thirty years as a teacher. 

Since my retirement, I have gradually started to produce more of my own work.

 I was first introduced to Lino printing whilst at school and continued to use it in my teaching. My enthusiasm for this medium was enhanced further when I attended a course with the artist Ian Phillips.

 Initially, I started to produce Lino prints as a record of a cycle tour from St Malo to Nice. Subsequently my subject matter has been the landscapes in and around Shropshire and latterly from some seascapes.