1945 Born Hampton
1962-66 Kingston College of Art. Painting Dip AD
1966-67 Brighton College of Art. Printmaking postgraduate studies
1969-72 Royal College of Art, Painting School MA.(RCA) 1970
1970 British Institution Award in Painting
1971 John Minton Travelling Scholarship in Painting
1972 Herbert Read prize for MA thesis
1973 Associated with Artist's Placement Group, London
1974-76 Designer and Studio Manager at James Haward Textile Design Studio, Twickenham, undertaking commissions.
1975-76 Assistant to Bernard Nevill, producing furnishing designs, International Wool Secretariat, Cantoni of Milan
1976-80 Freelance Designer of textiles. Work commissioned worldwide particularly Libertys
1976-80 Soieries Nouveautes and Boussac in France, and Etro, Garraghia, Cugnasca and Cantoni . Work featured in Libertys
1976-80 Centenary Exhibition at V&A museum and reproduced frequently in Vogue magazine.
1979-87 Part- time tutor in Painting, Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford.
1980-87 Lecturer in 20th C Art, Oxford University
1980-88 Part-time tutor in charge of Visual Studies, 3D dept WSCAD Farnham.
1984-88 Part-time tutor in Painting and Anatomy,WSCAD
1983-87 Visiting Tutor at Byam Shaw School of Art London
1988-90 Part-time tutor in visual studies, 3D design, Epsom School of Art.
1988 Formed Ariadne Design Partnership with Simone Witney
1989-90 Design Consultants to Hodsoll McKenzie Cloth Ltd, London( Furnishing fabrics for international distribution
1990 Ariadne Designs produces World famous Fabric Designs establishing our fabric agents in the Fulham rd
1991 Designed First collection for Osborne & Little.
1991 Curator and Exhibitor in'Allegories of Desire' exhibition London,( with 7 other painters)
1992 Designed second collection for Osborne and Little, Beaumont and Fletcher. Design consultants to Borderline Fabrics
1992 Moved to E Sussex coast. Continued painting in watercolour, mixed media and oils towards an exhibition,
1992-00 Occasional writing for art press with ongoing design commissions and speculative work.
1999-00 Managed restoration design of Georgian house in St Leonards , producing technical drawings for the builders
2000-02 Design consultants to Zoffany Ltd
2002 Died of lung cancer.