About the artist
For as long as I can remember, I have had two interests: drawing and history. These manifested themselves in the 1990s when finding myself out of work, I travelled from town to town earning a living as a pavement artist. It was also an ideal opportunity to see numerous castles, churches and ancient earthworks in their landscape context. I soon became an enthusiastic amateur surveyor, doing sketch plans and researching everything (especially medieval everything) around.
Sketch plans became measured plans, the research got more intense. This is when I first started doing reconstruction drawings from site reports and monographs. A more settled life by this time allowed for a more professional pursuit of archaeology. After completing a diploma in archaeology at Birkbeck, University of Londonhttp://www.bbk.ac.uk, I took a degree in archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology.
My main fields are late Saxon and Saxo-Norman churches and settlement sites and their landscpe contexts
Published works include 'A survey of earthworks and structural remains at Brays Wood, The Lee' in Records of Buckinghamshire http://www.bucksasorg.uk/records.html Volume 45 and 'Four Saxo-Norman churches near Wallingford in Oxoniensia http://oxoniensia.org Volume 71. In addition to this, I have written a number of unpublished papers on castles and churches. These are available as free downloadable pdf files from http://medievalsitesite.files.wordpress.com
Current research is concerned with identifying the site of King Alfred's double fort on the River Lea which he is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as founding in AD 896. A paper is in preparation on this subject
Sketch plans became measured plans, the research got more intense. This is when I first started doing reconstruction drawings from site reports and monographs. A more settled life by this time allowed for a more professional pursuit of archaeology. After completing a diploma in archaeology at Birkbeck, University of Londonhttp://www.bbk.ac.uk, I took a degree in archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology.
My main fields are late Saxon and Saxo-Norman churches and settlement sites and their landscpe contexts
Published works include 'A survey of earthworks and structural remains at Brays Wood, The Lee' in Records of Buckinghamshire http://www.bucksasorg.uk/records.html Volume 45 and 'Four Saxo-Norman churches near Wallingford in Oxoniensia http://oxoniensia.org Volume 71. In addition to this, I have written a number of unpublished papers on castles and churches. These are available as free downloadable pdf files from http://medievalsitesite.files.wordpress.com
Current research is concerned with identifying the site of King Alfred's double fort on the River Lea which he is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as founding in AD 896. A paper is in preparation on this subject