Trained at Cambridge as a palaeontologist, I refined my craft skills through the making of meticulously accurate illustrations for interpretation and publication. I first entered the life studio at 18 and continue to pay my artistic dues there regularly.

On leaving academia, I had a substantial career combining words and pictures to create medical educational materials. Latterly, I worked freelance from Exeter, which provided ongoing learning opportunities in drawing, sculpture and ceramics. Subsequently, I moved to Hertfordshire, where I established a small business as a painting practitioner and teacher. I exhibited regularly, winning the top prize at both Herts Open and Hertford Arts Society.

Since 2011, I have lived and worked at the fringe of Start Bay, where I channel my artistic focus on change and adaptation to change, whether it occurs slowly through evolution or suddenly through coastal inundation and climate breakdown. My current work is sometimes mischievous and explores iconic medieval portrayals of traditional stories. But in style it is entirely contemporary, beginning from lightly directed pigment transferred via glass, and emerging organically as an oil pastel tapestry of overlaid and interwoven writing that is sometimes poetry and sometimes science.