As a young child I can remember being fascinated by the natural world, with some of my earliest memories involving drawing animals whilst accompanied by my dad. He had worked as a commercial artist and was always my inspiration. I owe him so much and I'm forever grateful for his support. I was probably only six or seven at the time but the seed had been sown.​

    Whilst a student at the local art college I can remember being told that I couldn't fit a wildlife subject into every project we were given, so decided further education was not for me!

​    In my early adult years, whilst looking for work as a commercial artist, I worked at a number of mundane jobs but continued to concentrate on my own work. I started exhibiting my paintings in various shows around the country with a little success here and there. I soon realised that I needed something individual to make my work stand out so I decided that as I'd kept reptiles and amphibians as a teenager they would make a perfect subject to paint. The turning point in my career came when having had work accepted for the Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition at London's prestigious Mall Galleries a couple of years running, I decided to take the plunge and paint professionally.

    My work has featured in a number of publications and is held in private collections around the world, but probably my biggest achievement was having my acrylic painting "Domino" (pictured here) accepted for the annual Birds in Art exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson museum in Wisconsin, USA.

​    I've been Artist in Residence at Nature in Art, Twigworth, Gloucestershire (a museum of art based on the natural world) for a number of years, where I'm now considered the guy who paints reptiles!

​    Having also worked in the picture framing industry for a number of years, I decided in September 2013 to start my own business, Madboxes, to frame my work and that of other artists.