| I was born in Birmingham
and in the early 1950s attended Moseley Road Secondary
Art School, Birmingham where I specialized in learning
the skills of silversmithing, then going on to Margaret
St. College of Art, Birmingham to study Industrial Design.
After two years National Service my professional career
was in Product Design, which included making prototypes.
Retiring early from my full time
job as a development engineer in 2000 I can now spend
time on painting. One day a week during term time I
spend silversmithing at Vittoria St. School of Silversmithing
and Jewellery. (Part of Birmingham City University)
I produce most of my work from
sketches of colour roughs I have done 'on the spot'
then work them up into finished paintings in the studio
on stretched watercolour paper. If need be I will use
my own photographs to support my sketches or to produce
ideas for finished work.
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