About Me.
After studying Sculpture and then Photography, graduating in Fine Art at Newcastle Polytechnic in the late 70’s, my interest in landscape drew me to North Yorkshire, where I opened and ran Millbeck Photographic Gallery for 10 years selling my own work. Photographic galleries were unusual in those days.
I made the move to Greater Manchester in 1986 where I taught and lectured in Fine Art, Film and Photography. In later years I studied for an MA in Film, Peter Greenaway and the interconnectivity of art forms being a major interest in these studies.
Prior to attending Art School I was training to be a Civil Engineer which I gave up to take a Post 18 Art Foundation course. I also worked on farms in the UK and in France.
Over the years I have continued making images and exhibiting work. I have travelled extensively throughout Europe in a trusty VW Caravette; from the Årctic Circle to Spain including Eastern Europe from 1990. Time spent in the USA; Cuba; Iceland; S E Asia and New Zealand have provided extensive opportunity for, and have influenced, various photographic projects. Walking in mountains and cycling the Loire and the Danube have also provided sources for ideas.
Having studied sculpture at art school it seemed natural this would lead to photographing the sculptural form, the latter taking over as the art form in its own right. It can be seen in my images that 3 Dimensional form, structure and space play a significant part. Many images link these concerns with the past, or passing, influence of human intervention or presence. Whilst observing the bizarre and theatrical, I am interested in those formal elements which show evidence of human mediation, often ephemeral or transitory, in commonplace situations.
The more recent images demonstrate my particular and continuing interest in the interaction of people and space, and the transitory nature of such impermanent juxtapositions
Education
MA Film Studies (Sheffield Hallam University)
BA (Hons) Fine Art - photography, video & film (Newcastle Polytechnic)
Art Foundation (Cardiff College of Art)
PGCE Further/Higher Education Teaching
HNC Building Technology
Exhibitions
One Man Shows
1981 Theatre Royal York & Court house Museum, Knaresborough
1983 Cleveland College of Art gallery
1992 Gallerie de nouveau de theatre d’Angers. Anger
2001 Horncastle Gallery.
2006 ‘The Viola Project’ travelling throughout Lincolnshire
2014 ‘Fragments of Space’, Gallery at St Martin’s Lincoln
2016 Earth Air Fire Water Ether, The Harland Café Sheffield.
2018 Recent Landscapes, The Brodrick Gallery, Kingston upon Hull

Group Shows
1974 Edinburgh Festival.
1981 Gallerie Pont d’Aven
1982 Dovecot Arts Centre Stockton
1984 Billingham Art Gallery
1992 Pagefield gallery as part of Wigan International Festival
1994 Pagefield gallery as part of Wigan International Festival
1998 Tyde Goat Gallery, Cambridge
2000 Art on the Map - open studio plus various galleries in Lincolnshire.
2001 Art on the Map - open studio plus various galleries in Lincolnshire.
2001 ‘01 01 01‘ Show travelling throughout Lincolnshire
2004 20/21 Selected Works, Visual Arts Centre North Lincolnshire
2008 20/21 Selected Works, Visual Arts Centre North Lincolnshire
2012 20/21 Selected Works, Visual Arts Centre North Lincolnshire
2015 No 28, Belper
2017 Two Images : 'Widow’s Yard, Rumania', and 'Hou Los Boches, Picos De Europa, Spain', at Blank Walls Gallery, Athens
2021 A B & W image: 'The Table Cloth' at Blank Walls Gallery, Athens
2021 'Urban Archtecture', a show by a chosen group of 8 international photographers, at Radisson Collection Hotel, Old Mill Belgrade.
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Workshops
1983 Photographic Workshop Cleveland College of Art
1992 Photography and Sculpture, Manchester - Current Trends.
2001 ‘Victorian Photographic Processes’ at the Victoria & Albert Museum to celebrate the opening of the British Galleries there
2006 ‘The Viola Project’ - Seminars around Lincolnshire.
Books
1996 Peter Greenaway – The Relationship of his Films to the Visual Arts
and the following books of photographic images
2013 Silent Instructions
2014 Poolside
2014 Along the The Ash Road
2014 On The Edge
2015 Cuba – Faded Colours
2015 Earth Air fire Water Ether - Light & Shade
2023 Fuertaventura: Imprints
2023 Fuertaventura: A Sideways Glance
2023 Trekking Across the Tongariro
2023 Vietnam: In a Particular Light
2024 Laos: In the Shadow of Change