I was born in Scotland in 1958 and had the good fortune of a childhood and youth on Australia's Pacific coast, where I also completed study at UNSW College of Fine Arts. I've been living and painting the last 18 years in the Netherlands,a land short on physical space but generous on space for creativity . I've developed a figurative and an abstract body of work which could be described as metaphysical, symbolic and lyrical in content. The mood of a piece is always important and is often one of 'constructive melancholy'.