About the Artist

A former pupil at Oldham School of Art, then an engineering apprenticeship at A.V. Roe, Chadderton. Studied technical illustration on day release and evening classes, also attended life drawing classes during this period. After leaving Avro worked in various technical and commercial studios around Manchester and further afield.

For many years taught drawing and watercolour for the Oldham Lifelong Learning Service, works mainly in watercolour with occasional forays into oils, enjoys sketching outdoors (weather permitting] subjects are anything that arouses an interest.