He Worked for various newspapers in Fleet Street as a freelance illustrator: 20 years at the Daily Mail producing a daily strip called Focus on Fact and, at the same time, the Gary Player Golf Strip for the Sunday Express.

Joined Artists Partners, the leading artists' agents in the UK undertaking illustrations for advertising, finished artwork for book publishers including Penguin, Corgi Transworld etc.

During this period, began to be commissioned to paint portraits. The commissions grew to such and extent that he had to leave Artists Partners to devote more time to painting.

Commissions for limited edition sporting prints were taken on and proved to be so successful that he has become one of the country's leading sports artists