Writer – Painter – Woodworker

If I have an idea for a book, I write it; if I feel something for a place or a subject, I’ll make a painting. When I have a concept for a set of shelves, I design and make them. Usually, I’m doing something—recording radio documentaries, writing children’s stories, illustrating, blogging, or writing newsletters. I get excited about ideas, and I make them real; that’s what I do.

I tried the 9-5. I couldn’t focus; I’d keep forgetting what I was doing. ‘Memory banks’, they used to call me! I left. I sold everything I owned; I went to New Zealand to try new things. While there, I sailed as a deckhand in a tall ship through the Southern Ocean and South Pacific and afterwards wrote travel articles about it. Then I made my first radio documentary – about tall ship sailing – and Radio New Zealand played it at Christmas. After that, I did the next thing, and the next, and now, years later, here I am. I’m just myself. I take my work seriously, but life is too strange not to also see the funny side. This is my attempt to put it all under one roof. I hope you like it and enjoy checking out all my stuff.