I was born in Oxford in 1945. I attended Brighton and the Slade School of Art in the Sixties. After I left college I spent eleven years creating a dress design and manufacturing business called Mabs. By 1980 I had returned to painting full time. Around 1998 I began a series of paintings accompanied by a text, based on my mental breakdown I had in 1969. I widely exhibited these paintings, most notably at the Mexico Gallery, London, 2004.

I continued painting with a more general theme and exhibited with Outsider Artists, most recently with Wild Old Women, Novas Gallery, London 2008

All my works are large canvases, which I elaborately frame, or display as hangings.

I feel that painting has lost its striking imagery which was so successfully used by the Surrealist and Symbolist painters, now stolen by filmmakers who are having such a Renaissance with them. Chuck Close an American Photo Realist painter said, “I want to knock peoples' socks off”. Well I may not have the capacity to render you sockless: I would never the less like to have a try.