He studied at the Royal College of Art and since graduating in 1985 has been exhibiting nationally and internationally; latterly in China, where he lived for nearly eight years. He is a lecturer in Fine Art Painting (BA and MA) at the University of Brighton and has designed and delivered a number of courses for the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. For the same department he also runs a module annually for the Certificate in the History of Art on the materials and techniques of Western painting, historical to contemporary.