"My passion for art has chased me since my childhood. Years have passed and the desire to create increases by the day. I create my work from life, photographs, and sketches which I take and draw during travel, leisure, and day-to-day life. One of my favourite subjects is portraiture and figurative art along with still-life and landscape work. The expressions of the person painted are what inspired me to create a portrait. I often lose myself in my image library looking for that emotion to strike me. When I receive a commission my first request is to meet the person where possible and take the photographs myself or ask where possible for a live sitting, it gives me that special touch. ...