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During that time I had married. Our first child, Guy, was born in 1968 and my daughter Zoe followed in 1972. After a few years of working in the West Country of England the hard times of the mid 70s saw me seeking work overseas. A job with the Zambian government had the family moving to Africa where we lived for three years. From there I moved to a private practice in Kenya. We went home to our 300 year old corn mill in Cornwall in 1983.
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In 1984 I got a job with the Bermuda Government as a Senior Architect. My wife did not want to travel again so unfortunately estrangement and divorce followed. Six years with the Bermuda Government ended when my job was Bermudianized in 1990.
Casting around for something to do I started painting again, something I had done sporadically over the years. The first paintings sold!! And so I was away. I lived in Bermuda for the next twelve years selling in galleries, doing architectural illustrations and private commissions of houses and boats. I had four one man shows and regularly exhibited in group shows of the two art societies on the island. In the late 80s I bought a large yacht to renovate and live on.
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In Bermuda I worked mostly in watercolor, but now I work in oil as well. One of my main interests is marine subjects.
I was also winner of a contest for the redesign of the city harborside of Hamilton, the capital of Bermuda in 2005.
In 2003 I met Peggy, my late wife, an American doctor working in Bermuda. We decided to get married and we moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2004, back to where she was born.
We lived in a farm house that we renovated on the Samish flats near Edison in Skagit County. I painted regularly through the winter but didn’t normally exhibit. Summers seemed to be taken up mostly with gardening, looking after the house, and managing the farm.
Peggy passed in November 2020 after an eight year fight against breast cancer. I sold the farm, moved into a friend's apartment nearby for a year and then bought a house on the hillside in Bow.
Born in 1946 the last of four children (a baby boomer) into an army family. I traveled widely with my parents in my younger years including to Germany, Italy, Cyprus, Jamaica, and of course England. At the age of eighteen I went to Plymouth School of Architecture (in Devon, UK) and qualified as an Architect in 1971.
