Born in London in 1963, I spent a lot of my childhood moving around this wonderful world following my father’s work in the aviation business, before finally finishing school in Bedfordshire in 1979. Art and design had always been my forte for as long as I can remember. I started my Graphic Design course down south at the Bournemouth college of Art and Design that very same year. The time seemed to fly by. I received my Diploma in 1983, and after a lot of very serious thinking finally decided not to go ahead with the move to London in pursuit of work in the Graphic Design business. Instead I started working for my father in the completely different world of ‘Executive jet charter and jet maintenance’, following in his footsteps.

Over the following six years I studied and gained license coverage, finally becoming a technical inspector managing our engineering team. By the winter of 1989 I had started working for Channel Express; a Bournemouth based Airfreight Company operating eight Handley Page Herald aircraft (very old and noisy), flying routes around the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Eastern Europe. I spent two years accompanying these aircraft as a flying technician.

 In March 1991 I was very fortunate to have acquired a company pilot sponsorship, and before I knew it, I was off to New York to start my exams and flight training. The course took us all around the United States, from Boston on the east coast to Seattle on the west coast, and from Detroit Michigan in the north to Macon Georgia and Dallas Texas in the south. My first commercial aircraft was a Lockheed Electra (old and fairly noisy, with four engines) which I flew for nearly six years before moving onto our fleet of much larger Airbus A300 aircraft (two engines, 165 tons and nice and quiet). Flying to all kinds of destinations around the world, I worked for the company for over ten years, gaining over 4000 hours flying experience.

Unfortunately in December 2000 my life took a very different turn indeed. I had made my final commercial flight from Dubai to London on the 12th of December 2000, not knowing that this was in fact going to become my very last. I resigned from my company in March 2001, an extremely sad day, but something that I had to do. So now for a complete change of life for both my children and myself, in the month of August 2001 we set sail from Plymouth England, bound for Santander Spain, destined for the province of Valencia, half way down the Eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain.

 This was certainly the biggest, and without a doubt the best move that I have ever made in my entire life. Nine years have passed, we have settled in nicely. In 2005 I married a beautiful young Spainish lady and together we have a lovely little boy. We obviously all speak Spainish and also play a big part in our local community. In the later part of 2006 as well as teaching art and computer classes at a local Spanish school, I decided to construct my own art studio, and get back into the world of art and design, concentrating mainly on book illustration work.

 I, like many people had always had a burning ambition to write a book, and have had my head overflowing with loads of different ideas over the years. It now seemed like a brilliant time to finally put pen to paper, (or in this day and age, fingers to keyboard!) bringing one of these head bulging stories to life. I had already gained lots of experience; as well as making up stories to tell my children throughout the early part of their lives, I had also been reading a huge amount of kid’s books to them over the years. Slowly getting a feel for what I thought the children’s book market was actually missing.

Finally in the summer of 2007 I sat down and wrote ‘The Flyer is born’, my first children’s novel, and the first book in the series of ‘The great world adventures of Chubbly the aviator‘. And of course who better to illustrate it than myself! I am currently writing and illustrating more books in the series, and have an active interest in turning ‘Chubbly the Aviator’ into a children’s TV programme.

I am very pleased to have had my first book published by Sad Woody Books, of Valencia Spain.

The Flyer is Born is now available in many book shops including Amazon, Waterstones, and the children's section of all British and some American libraries. It is also available as a signed copy via this website.

"This children’s paperback is a breath of fresh air, and will undoubtedly become a number one best seller in bookshops throughout the United Kingdom".  

Charles Stanton, children’s literary critic.