Many years of teaching Art and Design in Secondary Education has provided me with rich insights into numerous aspects of the visual arts. Against this background, my own specific interests as a practitioner have found inspiration in a wide range of periods of art history and modes of representation. It is a passionate involvement with what might loosely be described as a cubist aesthetic which has so often characterised my most intense and rewarding painterly achievements where diverse, man-made and natural stimuli are interpreted through experimentally abstracted imagery.

Now able to operate on a full-time basis, I have recently seized the opportunity to extend my fascination for geometric fragmentation, rhythmically intersecting planes and the ambiguous articulations of negative space into the area of sculptural ceramics. In this context, my aim is to integrate my two and three dimensional work into one developmental whole without either media being subservient to the other. Actively encouraging a two way dialogue between these facets is proving to be an exciting and challenging area of exploration.