I am a contemporary East Anglian landscape painter, my work focused on the stark beauty and solitude of the haunting coastline of Suffolk.

I have been painting since an early age, and have developed a unique personal visual language and style of painting that has come from my relationship with the landscape of East Anglia, and specifically the landscape and environment of the Suffolk coast.

This long, haunting, empty stretch of ever changing shingle, sculpted by the wild North Sea, punctuated by isolated fishing communities and the brutal yet iconic industrialisation of a nuclear power station, eroding cliffs, reedbeds, heathlands, and great big skies, has resonated deeply with me since childhood. It become my escape from the world - where I could be myself alone, and has come to define who I am as a person, and define me as an artist.

My paintings are graphically striking, simplified in form and colour, defined and  redefined to the barest minimum, abstracted yet subtle and retaining enough to  make them instantly recognisable, and are a response to the stark, raw beauty and sharp intensity of light and colour of the Suffolk coast. My work is characterised by a strong sense of solitude and stillness, which is echoed from within myself, but with strong sculptural subjects  and defined contrasts, dark versus light, man-made versus natural, past against present.

The main themes running through my work are the remnants of the Sole Bay fishing  industry - the open beach boats and the fishermen who work them, the crumbling cliffs of Dunwich and the sweep of the desolate shingle beach, stretching away to infinity, RSPB Minsmere, and the big brooding abstract block shapes of the Sizewell nuclear power stations.

From 1995 until 2003, I exhibited annually at the Essex Open Exhibition at the Beecroft Art Gallery in Westcliff-on-Sea.

From 2002 until 2005, I was a member of the Synchro Studio, a collective of twelve contemporary and conceptual artists working in a former factory converted into studios in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex.

My first solo exhibition was in 2004 at the Beecroft Art Gallery in Westcliff-on-Sea. This was a sell out success. Since then I have acquired a dedicated network of private collectors in London and across East Anglia who buy and commission work direct from me.

In 2005 I relocated from Essex to the Suffolk coast to live what I was painting. My home and studio are on the edge of the AONB just inland from Sizewell.

From 2005 to 2009 I opened my studio to the public each June as part of Suffolk Open Studios. Since then I have remained an Associate Member of Suffolk Open Studios.

In 2010 I was one of the featured artists in the book ‘Artists in Our Midst’, published by Green Pebble. The book provided an insight into the work of 70 of the leading artists in East Anglia.

In 2011 I was invited by the then University Campus Suffolk in Ipswich to be a founder member of its Atrium Studios. The Atrium was a mix of established artists and art graduates, giving new graduates the opportunity to set up their first studio, and work alongside and learn from more established artists.

In 2013 and 2015 I organised and curated the CO2art exhibitions and awards for the Suffolk Climate Change Partnership - part of Suffolk County Council’s Creating the Greenest County. CO2art were art exhibitions on the issue of climate change open to students at Suffolk secondary schools.

From 2015 until 2018 I had a studio at the Old Jet Arts Centre, in a converted USAF building on the former Bentwaters Air Base at Rendlesham in Suffolk.

I’m represented by Buckenham Galleries in Southwold.