After completing my apprenticeship I accepted positions working in the Print trade in Samoa and then Melbourne Australia. I suffered a spinal injury in Australia which forced my return to New Zealand and a new career path in Print Management.

I worked at corporate level culminating in my founding a successful Advertising Agency, Alphabet Soup Ltd, which was initially funded by the sale of my Harley. I opted out of advertising in 1999 to settle in Blenheim, Marlborough, New Zealand and concentrate on my family and fly fishing.

I now work in construction and have my own Interior Plastering business.

I have always had an artistic bent and have dabbled in Pyro-graphic art since the late seventies. Nearly all my work has been gifted to friends and this is a situation that Lynn wants to address with my taking a more businesslike approach to my art. I favour photo-realistic art probably because I'm so anal about the need for detail which is probably a result of my printing background.

The one piece that I have a photo of (that Lynn sent you) took about 130 hours and was produced with an antiquated machine with one fixed nib. Note: See Photograph Above . . .

I now have some wonderful kit courtesy of a Canadian pyro-graphic supplier and this has re-energized me and prompted me to plan a series of work featuring the best Custom Bike Builders in the USA. I chose this subject matter because I am a biker myself, having never lost touch with my roots, and stand in awe at the amazingly technical and artistic work that these men of incredible vision produce.

I am currently working on a piece for Paul Yaffe, an Internationally recognized and highly regarded custom bike builder and am awaiting reference material from 2 other re-known bike builders.