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Born in Lahore in 1935 of British and Portuguese parents, I was educated in India and England.

For four years I studied painting and graphics at Walthamstow School of Art and the London College of Printing. Working as an art director in England and Germany gave me a valuable insight into graphics, photography and all forms of print and for the last twenty years I have devoted my time to painting and print making.

Statement about my work
Mankind has always been greedy for more than is necessary for comfort. Our appetite has increased as our technology has developed. Recent economic events may change us from a nation of greed to a nation of need, but that will only be for a short while until stability is regained. Then we’ll be back to our old ways, it is ingrained into our being, it’s what humans do.

My paintings and prints comment on the many contradictions of our society. Our insatiable desires, wastefulness and hunger for new experiences leave us little time to be still and to be.

It is not sustainable and implicates us all.

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