About The Artist

I’ve been painting and drawing all my life and studied glass design and art history at the now sadly defunct Stourbridge College of Art in the West Midlands, UK. Initially I ran a stained glass studio in South Wales but now make a living painting, writing and teaching in central Italy and surprise to say I am a happier man for it (on a good day). While never using it as an excuse, I am blind in one eye and colour blind, as well as being left handed. This is not mentioned for any other reason than to explain the deliberately strange perspectives and occasionally mis-placed colours as I show the world as I often see it. The work draws on the landscapes of the Late Byzantine and early Renaissance painters and uses their discoveries in perspective and colour as a way of exploring current themes. I’m lucky to live in the back garden where many great masters worked and this provides constant inspiration to my own endeavours. Read more at http;//umbriartgallery.wordpress.com