My career as an artist and writer spans more than 40 years. After completing a post graduate degree in Archaeology and Anthropology, I moved to New York City where I worked in galleries and began to create my own art. My earliest pieces were painted constructions exploring ideas of perception; I soon moved on to painting and multimedia installation. In the mid-1980s I created a series of large-scale installations about the artists, writers and composers who fought and died in the First World War. This work was exhibited in galleries in New York, the UK and Europe.
In the late 1980s, I moved to a small seaside town in Massachusetts where I started writing for magazines and newspapers. I also worked with software developers and other creative artists on interactive multimedia projects for TV and CD-ROM. In the early 1990s I began a long-term collaboration with technologists from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (Cambridge, MA). In 1995 we created Diamond Park, a groundbreaking social virtual reality project.
As one of the inventors of a fundamental 3D graphics patent, I was invited to become a co-founder of Mitsubishi's Multimedia Research Lab in Silicon Valley. I spent several years working in the high tech industry in the Bay Area, first on the creative and then on the business side.
In 2000 I moved to the UK, where I have lived and worked ever since. I have created large-scale art installations for organisations ranging from the National Trust to Bats in Churches. I have also ventured into other creative fields: in 2004 I received a Diploma With Distinction in Garden Design and in 2010 I wrote my first cookery book.
In addition to my work as an artist, I am also an active volunteer. I have worked as a primary School Governor, a STEM Ambassador and a member of The Mayor of Bath's Corps of Honorary Guides. My nature/wildlife volunteering includes work for Bats in Churches, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, Wiltshire Bat Group, Charlcombe Toad Rescue and Colour in the Margins (part of Back from the Brink). I also write regularly for both online and print media on a wide range of subjects.
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Selected Awards and Prizes:
Bats in Churches, National Church Survey Volunteer Award (2021)
Simpson Travel, Travel Writing Competition, Winner (2016)
Lundy Island Calendar Competition (2011)
National Trust, Avebury Circles in Time (Photography Competition) (2010)
The International Garden Photographer of the Year, Muckin4Life, First Prize (2010)
Lands' End Colour Garden (Garden Design Competition), Runner up (2010)
The International Garden Photographer of the Year, Early Bird Competition, First Prize, Garden Views Category (2008)
Berkshire & Chilterns Life/CPRE 80th Anniversary Photography Competition, Runner Up, Landscape Category (2006)
Burnham Beeches National Nature Reserve, 125th Anniversary Photographic Competition, First Prize (2005).
Selected Publications and Photography Credits:
Caring for God's Acre
Bats in Churches
The Cotswold Lakes Trust
The National Trust
Images of England
London Parks & Gardens Trust
BBC Online
Woodland Trust
The Kennel Club
Razor Red
IEEE Multimedia
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
TV4 Sweden
The Scotsman
Art Journal
Craftseller
Selected Teaching and Workshop Experience:
Various adult and children’s groups, Wiltshire - Bat talks and walks
Herbs for Healing, Barnsley, Gloucestershire - Garden Photography workshops
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA - Guest Lecturer, Postgraduate Programme in User Interface Design
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA - Instructor, Department of Design Communications and Visiting Artist, Department of Painting
The InterArt Center, New York - Consultant, Education Programme
South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA - Lecturer on Contemporary Art
Artists Talk on Art, New York - Organiser/moderator, ‘New Scottish Art’ Symposium