At my home in Aberaeron. I've been based in Aberaeron for the past 20 years. I knew the area from trips I used to make as a lorry driver. I also knew that there was interest in my kind of work in this part of the country after meeting a bus load of West Walians years ago at the Leyland Museum in Lancashire. I picked up 15 commissions in one day!

I am a self-taught artist. I did Art 'A' Level with a view to studying Fine Art. My parents didn't rate Art as a serious job. After I left school, I worked as a long distance lorry driver, away for the week. During this time, I would take books away with me - 20th century art, Monet etc - and study how different artists put colours together. I went back to painting in the early 1980s and entered a local art exhibition with a lorry painting. It was well received so I started to work full-time as an artist in 1984.

From there, my wife Colleen and I started taking a travelling picture gallery around to the transport shows in the UK. Nowadays, we send pictures, calendars, cards and prints to destinations far and wide. Colleen runs the mail order and we take a pride in looking after our friends/customers. Over the years we have built up a following of about 1,000 people.

My work features paintings of lorries past and present in authentic landscape settings with authentic liveries. Some of it is based on memories of the old days, but we get a lot of commissions for modern trucks and there is always 2-3 years work ahead. I use acrylics (Lascaux mainly) on gessoed boards, not canvas, which I don't really rate as a suitable support. I have been using Acrylics since they were available as Liquitex "Permanent Pigments", before U.K. versions came on the market (early 1960s) so by now I feel I know roughly how to use them, if nothing else! Commissions come from drivers, hauliers and enthusiasts.

My inspiration comes from the people we meet mainly, and the history of roads and road transport in the UK and Ireland. I seem to like wild places, mountains, etc., I don't know why, maybe it is in the genes. My mum's family were from the west of Ireland and my great grandfather was a coachman. Lorries have a particular attachment for their drivers. They're like the old canal boats, and owners and drivers take great pride in them. Road Haulage is really a closed profession that many folk wouldn't understand. All that is the source of my work.

Nowhere and everywhere - only with our own travelling picture gallery which we have taken round transport shows in the UK since 1984.

We are only doing one more show this year, then calling it a day for our gallery. That will be at Gaydon in Warwickshire on 11 June 2006. From now, we aim to concentrate on mail order via the internet. Every year we publish a fine art limited edition print. This year's will feature a Silver Roadways Foden on the Cardiff to London Night Trunk, mid '60s, at the "Walls of Newnham". The biggest thing we have done is to publish (December 2005) a retrospective book of 130 lorry paintings called 'Roadscapes'.

Anything else we should know?

As an art student, I used to draw Quentin Crisp at life-drawing classes in London. He had dyed blue hair, painted blue fingernails and toenails and was wearing just rouge, mascara and a g string. It was a bit of an eye-opener for a 16 year old!

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