Born 1954 Belfast.

1976 BA(Hons.) Fine Art, Belfast College of Art.
1977 Post Graduate studies in sculpture, Belfast.
1978 Art Teachers Cert, Goldsmiths’ College, London.
1979 Student Tutor, Goldsmiths’ ATC course.
1980 present lecturer at Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.

One person exhibitions in 1992 “Allowance and Investment”, Triskel, Cork and Project, Dublin and 2001 “The Human Contract”, Fenton Gallery, Cork. Has exhibited widely in group shows in Ireland. Work represented in the collections of Northern Ireland Arts Council, U.C.C. and Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.

'In painting, as with other creative activities, you set your own agenda, choosing aspects of existence with which you wish to be seen to be addressing. Such choice underpins the latent reflexivity of this arena of enquiry and unfolding. For me, the value of my painting lies in the deployment of time, consideration, anger and elation onto a surface. Time: for my unconscious to believe that I'm serious and let some discreet packages out of its bag. Consideration: when you can sit down by yourself. Anger and elation: when you are running blind, leaping across oceans or hitting delicious walls of uncertainty.'