I trained as a surveyor, worked at Ordnance Survey, Southampton until 1939. Surveyor in the Royal Engineers for the duration of World War II, in the Middle East and Germany.

After the war I attended the Southern College of Art and obtained a Double National Diploma (NDD) in Illustration and Painting. I won a travelling scholarship to study in the Paris Ateliers (1951).

Art teacher, picture restorer and valuer. I am most famous for paintings of the Hampshire landscape which I love.

I have had numerous one-man shows, past exhibitors of my works have included:

• The London Group
• Royal Academy
• Royal Institute
• The Majorie Parr Gallery
• Guildford House Gallery
• The Guildhall Gallery - Winchester Laing Collection, for which I won the Southern Regional prize 1984

My paintings are in many private collections which include:-

• The Mayor of Winchester's collection in the Guildhall Gallery,
• Winchester and
• The Rose Bowl - Hampshire Cricket.

My work can be viewed by arrangement at my Studio in Somerset or in Hampshire.