His degree show included Alpine landscape and pen and ink drawings of mountains, influenced by the writings and visual examples of John Ruskin.

Later the same year he held his first solo exhibition of Alpine paintings at the Amwell Gallery, London.

After two years at the Slade he transferred to Aberystwyth University School of Art where he was supervised by Professor Alistair Crawford, obtaining his PhD in 2001.

After a solo exhibition at the Hereford Museum and Art Gallery in 1987 the artist decided to concentrate on the mountains of Snowdonia as his main subject.

Also in 1987 he joined the Kilvert Gallery[3] in Clyro near Hay on Wye, at the invitation of its director Elizabeth Organ.

In an Arts Review, Anthony Vettise wrote 'What is very striking is the searching quality of this artist's working process, one senses the struggle to find solutions through trial and error, the building of marks and colour and the reworking of ideas.