Visual Storyteller

I am a visual storyteller based in rural Gloucestershire in a small village called Cam. I live opposite a horse paddock that inspires my daily creative practice, especially when the sun is out and the daffodils are blooming. 

Unfortunately, I am now middle-aged and fast approaching fifty; however, the advantages this provides me fill me with love and hope for the future as I live with my lovely wife of over twenty years, Heather, and our two teenage daughters, Felicity and Elizabeth, two kittens and a couple of guinea pigs. For over fifteen years, I have been a full-time children's entertainer.

 I returned to education about eight years ago, starting with functional Maths and English at a local community centre. By pushing myself, I have worked up to the very last stages of a BA Hons. in Illustration at the University of Gloucestershire. My creative journey started at sixteen when I left school and started a two-year City and Guilds course in furniture making at Stroud College, where I fell in love with woodcarving, which sparked the seed of becoming an International Puppet maker in Punch and Judy style figures.

 For several years, I became the Editor of The Swazzle, a magazine for the Punch and Judy Fellowship. I enjoy singing in a local church choir, reading sci-fi and fantasy books and combining my creative curiosity with a love of discovering the weird and wonderful things previous generations got up to and how these traditions and customs can inspire my creative outcomes.