I was born in Upton Park, London in 1946.	I gained a B.Sc. (1st class Honours) in Electronics from the University of Salford in 1969 and I have lived in Northern California since 1979.
At age seventeen my high school report read:				I found inspiration in a quotation of David Hockney’s from a January 2000 New Yorker article:
“He has a lively attitude, but it would be helpful if he could develop a positive philosophy to replace his odd notions that whatever does not work is best of all!”		In early 2000 I began printing digital images and found a medium that excited me and I decided to attend art school.		“From this day forward, one might want to say, paraphrasing Delaroche, chemical photography is over!
					The monocular claim to univalent objective reality is falling away once and for all, and we are being thrust back on ourselves,
					forced to take responsibility for the way we make and shape our realities, with eye and hand and heart.Who knows where it all will lead? But it's a very exciting time.”
Following my graduation from Salford, I went to work in the semiconductor industry alternating between engineering and marketing jobs.	My engineering work included stints ranging from working in a wafer fab clean room (wearing a ‘bunny’ suit every day) to managing a small group of software engineers	and presenting new product introductions to technical audiences around the world.
		By 1997, I headed a chip and software development organization with 200 employees. This was the conclusion of my career in the semiconductor industry.		I completed my MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. My work invariably uses computers, with images presented in a variety of media.