I was well into my twenties before I discovered that I might be able to make some sort of a living from drawing and painting. After a bit of a false start trying to be a painter, I found a drawing job at Halas and Batchelor, an animation studio in London, in 1970. That led to freelance work for other London studios, a short spell as a storyboard artist in an advertising agency, and a rather longer spell as a producer with TVC London, the animation studio who had made Yellow Submarine. It was there that I began to realise that I might make a career as an illustrator.
In the early years, the work was for advertising agencies, and only later did I drift gradually into children’s books, initially for Walker Books, then for David Bennett, and later for Boxer Books. It was here my professional trajectory came to rest, and you can see evidence of most of my work, with its diverse tones and tributaries, in the pages of this website.
