Creativity has always run in my family. My grandfather George Hann, was an acclaimed artist and mentor to me. I started very young in oil painting cutting up old bedsheets and turning them into canvases.. Being an army child I was good at art, music and sport and was particularly good at running especially long distances. I worked in many different jobs until I set up my decorating firm in Brighton which is where I bought my first house and lived with my eldest daughter.

I was always working in art and music and had a canvas on the go and would go gigging in pubs on my own. When I finally had the chance to quit my day job there was a choice between music or art. I chose art. With the blessing of my hard-working wife, I had to make it work as we had a mortgage to pay and children to feed. It's been a roller coaster of success and failure and back again. I now live and have a home studio in Penzance Cornwall.