Inheriting from my father a love of sketching, photography and the natural world, and encouraged from an early age in all three, I grew up intensely aware of and surrounded by wildlife of every kind.

Whether rearing butterflies and moths, sketching and photographing birds, giving healing to sick hedgehogs, rescuing titmice too icy to feed themselves in the snow, trying to rehabilitate injured pheasants, or giving any one them a solemn burial when they died, I quickly fathomed the cruelty, but also the beauty and value, of the natural world.

I have many a childhood memory of driving with my father over hill and dale in search of elephant hawk moth caterpillars to rear at home. Then every day we'd make the same trip to cut fresh willowherb to feed the hungry blighters with. But, oh, the joy of seeing the imago emerge safe and well from it's pupal case, while I sat there either with a camera or pencil in hand, recording every moment!

With such an upbringing it was inevitable that that natural world, and the ways it was possible to experience, appreciate and connect with it, would always be an intrinsic part of me and my outlook on life. For that I owe both my long-suffering parents a debt of gratitude.

I have recently upgraded my Nikon FM2 with a D200 and so will be able to add an increasing number of prints for sale over the coming months. With Photoshop and Corel Painter I am also planning to combine my love of painting with the unlimited potential of digital art.

All the bird of prey studies on this page and elsewhere on the site I made at The Hawk Conservancy (now The Hawk Conservancy Trust) in Hampshire, UK. All have been sold, but commissions are welcome.