Painter, born in Montreal, Canada, of Welsh parents, who was educated in Haverfordwest and Coventry. For a time he was a librarian and did clerical jobs before attending Newport College of Art, 1967–71. He began to show in the early 1970s, showing in the WAC show Every Picture Tells, in 1972, and having one-man exhibitions at Portal Gallery and 369 Gallery, in Nottingham. WAC and Newport Museum and Art Gallery hold his work.