After discharge from Navy Service in 1947 he lived first in Queensland and then in New South Wales until 1949, at which time he returned to Brisbane.
He studied painting and drawing at the Central Technical College and then privately with Margaret Cilento from 1949 to 1951.
He first became interested in pottery in 1950 and was taught wheel-throwing by Mervyn Feeney, a traditional potter living in Brisbane.
In 1975 he resigned from lecturing to work full-time at Summertown, South Australia in the Adelaide Hills where he and his wife established a workshop, home and gallery in a restored 1850s stone mill.
In 1991 he was accorded a retrospective of his work, covering a period of thirty-five years, at the Art Gallery of South Australia.