1964-1965 - Middlesbrough College of Art; 1965-1968 - Studied at Bath Academy of Art for a Diploma in Art & Design; 1968-1970 - Masters in Fine Art, University of Reading; 1974 - received the Northern Arts Production Award. 1976 - received the Trident TV Fellowship in Fine Art. 1982 - held a solo exhibition at Moira Kelly Fine Art. 1987 - held a solo exhibition at Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, in which he showed paintings and drawings made underground in a potash mine.