I was born in the UK in 1953. Although I painted all through my teens at school under the guidance of my art teacher the Scottish artist Nell Todd and at Cambridge University where I exhibited at Kings College and Kettles Yard, I actually had a scientific education. After graduation I considered training as an artist at a UK art school but instead decided to go to France where I learnt to draw at the Paris municipal art school in the Place des Vosges and completed my artistic education with the inspiring instruction on artist�s materials from Nicolas Wacker at the �cole des Beaux Arts...more
