My lifelong engagement in the arts, music, opera, design and photography began in the late 1960s with formal training in graphic design, signcrafts and typography.

Across the 1970s and 80s I photographed remote expeditions to the Arctic, Himalaya, Kimberley, and other wilderness regions, and produced an internationally released TV documentary film of Australia's first Arctic expedition (which I personally led) screened by Discovery, CBC, BBC, ABC and across Europe,

As a practising artist in the early 2000's, my major exhibition in Sydney, launched by the Danish Consul General, explored in abstract form the 11 short compositions of Mussorgsky's disturbing work, universally known as Night on a Bald Mountain, which drew from the book "Dark Night of the Soul' by Saint John of the Cross.

During Covid, which changed everyone's lives, the extreme sunsets of South Australia's Golphe Josephine drew me back into professional photography full time.