All those years spent working to a design brief meant that to be really personal about my painting and drawing I was going to have to be selfish - and it was good to find a positive use for this word. It was a relief to move away from words and the mis-interpretations they can cause, but I love how very different reactions can be to paintings and drawings. I paint faces from life, mostly they are painted in one day. I start with a charcoal study so we can get used to looking at each other. Then I work in oil on linen. I try to make the session an informal experience so that the painting might feel more relaxed, looser and spontaneous.

The Beach Hut Gallery in Grange-over-Sands have been kind enough to show my first Cumbrian landscapes. I have approached these in the same way I paint faces - on location in one session.

• Hesketh Hubbard Art Society summer exhibition at the Mall Galleries, London; July 2003, August 2004, July 2005, October 2006, and July 2007
• Federation of British Artists Open Day, London; July 2003
• Solo: Lightgallery, London, ?Soulsbodies?; December 2005
• Aristao Gallery, London, ?Spirit & Form?; May 2006
• Barnet Open at Arts Depot, London; June 2007
• Joint: The Saïd Business School Gallery, ?Three-way? with portrait photographer Robert Taylor, Oxford; January 2008
• The Untitled Artists Fair, Chelsea, London; June 2008 
• Art Below on London Underground; August 2008
• Art Below on London Underground; December 2008
• Lake Artists summer exhibition, Cumbria; September 2009
• Art Below on London Underground; December 2009
• The Beach Hut, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria; March 2010
• Private collections