My passion for painting trees started when I set a topic as a teacher.

"Do your own version of the Tree of Life", I instructed them. I joined in the project.

The resulting Tree of Life was sold on the first day of my Cambridge Open Studio that year.

I love the mythology and the folklore that surrounds trees. I wrote a list of titles for new tree paintings and never looked back. The intricate detail and decorative quality means my trees are far from realistic even though many were based upon some of the trees I saw in Cambridge.

My trees have been exhibited at many places including Byard Art, Williams Art,  Michaelhouse, the Plough, Cambridge and Birminham Open Studios and at Addenbrookes Hospital. TheTree of Knowledge is on permanant display at Hughes Hall Library after it was bought and then presented by a Life Fellow to the college. My paintings have been bough by people in the UK, America, USA and Europe.

Some of the trees have been made into limited edition giclee prints. Please enquire.

I love Cambridge. The colleges, the parks with their wide open spaces, the people and of course the cows that live in the centre of our city.

It gives me endless inspiration for my paintings.

I paint the whimsy of Cambridge, many of my paintings are like puzzles with lots of details to find. My Tree of Cambridge and Tree of Discovery epitimise the knowledge that that people living here have of both Town and Gown.

It was suggested that I visit the Parker Library at Corpus Christi by a visitor to my Open Studio. I cannot thank her enough. While I was on my visit, led by a Cambridge Tourist Guide, I asked the librarian if I could come along and draw from the iluminated manuscripts. He suggested I applied to become a reader and within a week I was turning the pages of a facsimile of the Corpus Apocalyse. I was hooked and am now a regular visitor.

I take a sketch book and copy some of my favourite illuminations. Bliss! I have started to turn them into paintings and hope one day to have an exhibition and perhaps my very own Illuminated Manuscript.

I love going urban sketching and I join other like minded people at least once a month and draw from some of the wonderful places in and close to Cambridge.

I also go to the museums either by nyself or with some of my students and draw some of the fabulous items on show in Cambridge. And I join an 'Urban sketch a day' group in May where it can be a struggle to find not only the time but also a subject to draw for 31 days on the trot!

My sketchbooks are on show during Open Studios and you can buy a few of the sketches.