1943 Born on 6th February, Clevedon, Somerset
2007 Elected Member of the Pastel Society
2008 Elected Honorary Treasurer of the Pastel Society

I live within ten minutes walk of the Exe Estuary and the adjacent South Devon coastline. This is one of the landscape subjects that has inspired me for many years, and still does. I try to capture the light and atmospheric effects that I see throughout the year.

Solo Exhibitions:
2008 Walker Galleries, Honiton, Devon
2007 Walker Galleries, Sidbury Mill, Devon
2006 Fred Keetch Gallery, Exmouth, Devon

I usually work from sketches made on site. I often take a Unison pastels colour chart, which I use to annotate my sketches with colour references. I also use a digital camera for back-up information, and for detail that I may have omitted to record at the time. I paint in soft pastel on either pumice paper, solid-core mountboard, to which I apply a coloured pumice surface, Sennelier pastel card or Canson paper. I quite often make an underpainting in pastel by blocking in all the main areas of colour and then dragging the applied pastel down with the side of my hand over the whole picture area. This creates a ghostlike image, and also has the effect of unifying the colour. I sometimes draw out my subject in charcoal. I usually have three or four paintings in progress at any one time.

The Bill Patterson Memorial Award, 2008
The Unison Pastels Award, 2007
The Sarah Samuels Fine Paintings Award, 2006