Born: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 22.12.1959.  Like with most children, I like drawing and for a while in my early teens, concentrated on pencil drawings of local wildlife.

I also loved cityscapes and attempted to create a city business centre, with 3D paper models of skyscrapers.  It was going quite well and the CBD expanded, but as the large cardboard platform ran out of space, so did the interest.

It was in 1986 that I started painting in watercolour.  The subject then were the wild birds in Zimbabwe.  The first picture was of a Yellow-billed Hornbill, copied directly from a published picture.  My early attempts at drawing from life were greeted with ridicule from my fellow bird enthusiasts.  I continued illustrating birds and the images did improve greatly. Some of them ended up on calendars and on an inflight magazine for Air Zimbabwe.

On moving to the UK in 2007, I started exploring other styles and became interested in illustrating people.  I am not good at capturing likeness, but I am able to produce pictures with lots of character.  2018 was a watershed year in that I produced a lot of images featuring moons and planets.  I also started drawing and painting images that have, for me, a painting images with strong social comment. One of them, has a strong Banksy feel to it, although that was not the intension at the time.

My friends and interested people say I have an eclectic mixture of subject matter.  With limited space, with no studio, I have stayed with watercolour.  It is a difficult medium, but can reward an artist if they persist at it.