Painter in oil and watercolour and lecturer, born in Hull, Yorkshire. Gained an honours degree in fine art, having studied at Medlock Fine Art Centre, Manchester Polytechnic, 1976–9. He combined painting with part-time lecturing in colleges in northwest of England. Group shows included Urban Landscape at Stockport Art Gallery, and Lancashire South of the Sands, which toured from the County and Regimental Museum, Preston, both 1988; and Attitudes to the Contemporary Nude, at the latter venue, 1989. Solo shows included Lewis Textile Hall, Blackburn, 1987; Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, 1988; and Towneley Hall, Burnley, 1990. Eastern Arts Association and Towneley Hall own examples. Lived in Sale, Cheshire.