Born in 1950 in Kent. He studied at the Byam Shaw, Camberwell, and Centrals schools of art in London, specializing in etching. From 1973 he taught at the Central school, and other art schools.

From 1976-1979 he ran the etching studio of Editions Alecto the leading original print publisher in the country at the time, where he worked with many well known contemporary artists. His own work was almost exclusively confined to monochro­matic, gothic and fantastic images until a first visit to India in 1979 made a radical change of direction towards more topographical subject matter. He made extensive working trips throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle and Far East and America. In 1992 he visited the painted caves of Paleolithic man in France. This was to be the catalyst for a new series of work based on primal, “animist” imagery which still continues to develop now.