Born in Leeds
Student at the Regional College of Art Bradford and Goldsmiths College.

Taught in the Fine Art Departments of Lancaster and Portsmouth Colleges of Art, Portsmouth Ploytechnic,
followed by the Royal College of Art, Department of Ceramics and Glass becoming Professor,
with a period as Wedgwood Group Design Director, then Pro-Rector.

Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art
Member of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS)

Publications:
Three Manuals for Thames & Hudson
"Pottery & Ceramics",
"Architectural Ceramics"
"Stoneware & Porcelain"

Commissions/Prizes:
‘Art into Landscape’ Serpentine Gallery,
‘Holborn Tube Station’ Whitechapel Gallery,
‘Parsons' Polygon’ Newcastle, (Listed by English Heritage Grade 2, August 2016, NHLE 1437311)
Paddington Underground Station,
Euston (Northern Line) Underground Station
‘Art of Lego’ Clwyd and Touring.

Work in Public Collections:
Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery
Southampton City Art Gallery
Reading Museum Art Gallery
Wakefield Museum & Art Gallery

Exhibtions since 20011
Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition 2011,
One Church Street, Great Missenden, 2011
London Group Open, London 2011. 2015
Ludlow Open, 2009, 2010, 2012
Royal West of England Academy, 2009, 2013, 2015
Open West 2009, 2010, 2013,
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
Royal Watercolour Society, Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015, 2016
Quay Arts, Isle of Wight 2015, 2021, 2022
Discerning Eye 2007, 2015, 2018, 2024
Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery 2016 to present
Oxmarket Centre, Chichester, Stride Open, 2016, 2017
Biennial International Prize “Marche d’Acqua” Fabriano Watercolour 2018,
www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/figurative-art-now, 2021
South downs Open, Petersfield, 2024