This essential field experience has proved most useful when illustrating bird identification guides. Publications include, "Concise Birds of the Western Palearctic"(Oxford University Press), "The Handbook of Birds of the World"(Lynx Editions), "A Field Guide to the Birds of South East Asia"(New Holland) and the recently published "Sunbirds and Flowerpeckers"(A&C Blacks).

I also work in scraperboard producing woodcut style illustrations for packaging, advertising and newspapers for the Times, Sainsbury’s, Hello and various Design Agencies. More recently I have gradually developed my watercolour style, enjoying the vibrancy and immediacy of the colours, mainly natural history subjects, but I will tackle most subjects including castles, barges, maps and hill-forts.

Current and recent projects include a book on Birds of Paradise, stamp designs for the Solomon Islands, Barbados and South Georgia, identification panels for the hides at EWT Abbot’s Hall, and work for the RSPB, including "Birds" magazine and a mural at Rainham Marshes reserve.

          1984  Foundation Studies, (Art & Design), Brighton Polytechnic

          1987  BA Hons Graphic Design, Kingston Polytechnic

          1988  Second Prize, Reader’s Digest Young Illustrators Competition

          1993  Winner "British Birds" Bird Illustrator of the Year Competition

          1999-2005  Illustrated a gardening column in "The Times" newspaper

          2002 Runner-up RSPB "Wake up to Birds" Competition

Exhibited at the Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, Wildlife Art Gallery, Lavenham, Suffolk, Abberton Wildfowl Centre, Colchester, Essex, Birdscapes Gallery, Norfolk, Birds Birds Birds, Faversham, Kent, and the British Birdfair, Rutland Water.