As a child, he learnt to play the piano; however, his interest in reading and drawing combined into a love of comics.
At 16, he attended art college in Reading, and obtained his first work doing the occasional page for British comic 2000 AD.
After an unsuccessful band tour of Scandinavia, he decided that the rock and roll lifestyle wasn't for him, and moved to Dartmoor to concentrate on illustration.
The Dartmoor landscape provides inspiration; otherwise his ideas come from everywhere - "watching a film, walking round Sydney Opera house, the dog pulling a stupid face; anything."
[2] He was the cover artist for the eight-volume fantasy school stories Children of the Red King by Jenny Nimmo (2002 to 2009).