Maker's bio

In 2012 I set up the Welsh Academy of Art having moved to the Brecon Beacons from London. In 1998 I went to Florence to study portraiture and landscape using the traditional methods that the old masters employed. This gave me a strong ground from which to grow my career painting portrait commissions and landscapes around the world. Teaching students these time tested methods which have developed over the centuries and are still evolving, fuels my inspiration for the never ending endeavour to create beautiful paintings.