Born 1943 in Bury Lancashire,United Kingdom.
Educated at St. Andrew's Primary School
and Peel Brow Secondary School in Ramsbottom, Lancashire, Northern England, United Kingdom.

My first recollections of frustration in art at the age of six when I could not get the fishing line to go from one plane (the beach) to another (the sea). It took ages to fathom out by which time my work fell behind with the other children and I received a reprimand.

1943-1958