About me

Growing up in the small West Sussex village of Cocking in the 1970s, with  a superstitious mother, a vivid imagination and according to my teachers a proficient daydreamer, I was well positioned mentally and physically for an adventurous childhood. Now some fifty years later I have a healthy respect of what may lay within the darkness and a passion to tell stories. My mother’s fearful beliefs still see me salute a lone magpie to ward off a sinister omen. 

In 1989 I enrolled on a 3 year professional photographic course, qualifying in 1992 as a professional photographer. I have worked on many projects over the last 27 years as a camera person, in conventional photography, digital and experimental processes. I have exhibited at various galleries including the Millais gallery in Southampton, several projects printed in the media and also teach short course at West Dean college for the Edward James foundation. I continue to enjoy the medium of image capture using what is now regarded as analogue photography, or real film. And more recently have found a passion to write stories, with the inception of my first published novella 'Blackthorn Hill' my passion continues to grow to find new subject matter. And continue my journey which started all those years ago, roaming the hills where the only boundary was my imagination. I am married to Yvonne, we have two grown up children and now live in Littlehampton. 

“When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love.”
Alan Watts