Graduated from Brighton University with a degree in Illustration in 1986. Lived and worked there for the next 10 years, illustrating many classic novels such as Steinbeck, Dickens and Louisa M. Alcott, with the oldest and most respected illustrators agent - Artist Partners Ltd.

Returned home to Ireland 10 years ago, started a family and began to paint beloved Irish landscape.

Regularly return to England for portrait commissions such as Sir David Watson, Sir Michael Checkland and Professor John Lord, my old tutor so completing a circle.