I don’t particularly enjoy painting or drawing but I often get a drive that makes me put paint to canvas or pencil to paper.

If I had to be ‘pigeon-holed’ I guess I’m a painter with a social conscience.

Although I was trained as an educator and spent many years teaching, verbal communication was never my forte. I am much more at home with visual and musical concepts. When confronted with social inequality, abuse of children, exploitation of the poor, snobbery of the privileged, institutional thuggery, marginalisation of minorities - I experience a kind of mental trauma which is relieved to a degree by painting.