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Where are you from originally and where do you live now?
I am from Birmingham, but grew up in the Cotswold Hills. I now live in Pembrokeshire which has been my home for 13 years so far.

What medium/media do you work in?
I work mainly in watercolour, and sometimes pencil crayon and I like using gold leaf.

How would you describe your work?
Someone else once described it as whimsical and romantic. I would say that it is figurative, and draws on dreams and happenings and myth and story and experience.

What are your influences and inspirations?
I am influenced by stories, by landscape by creatures and by dreams, the odd things people say, amoungst other things.

What piece/pieces of work are you most proud of and why?
That is a difficult one. Each piece of work I do never comes out how I want it or expect it to. It is almost like having an idea that gets stuck in your elbow. As my technical skill improves with practice I can get closer to getting what I want, but always it is elusive, evasive. Which I suppose is what keeps you going. There are things I look back on and now can feel pleased with, and The Seal Children is one of these, a story that I wrote and illustrated, set a mile from where I live, and connected very closely both physically and emotionally to me. I also like the cover of Lord of the Forest.

Have you had any exhibitions if so where ? Do you have any planned in the future?
I have exhibited in the UK and in Australia. My work can be seen regularly in Rhosson House Gallery in St Davids and I had a very big exhibition in the National Library of Wales a few years back.

Please give a brief description of one or two of the projects you've worked on most recently.
I have just finished a book with James Mayhew, called Can You See A Little Bear, a young picture book with a carnival atmosphere, which was great fun. Lord of the Forest has just been published and I went to Edinburgh International Book Fair with that, which made me feel very grown up, and I am working on another four books including a book of classic poems and another book that I have written, which is about dragons.

What are your views of the current welsh scene both nationally and in south Wales?
I'm not keen on nationalism of any kind, but think that art, especially visual art has the ability to speak to all people of all cultures and creeds. I am however very proud to have a couple of books published in the Welsh language, but equally pleased that I have books published in many other languages too.I do think that there is a climate in Wales that allows art to flourish, and whereas in England, where I grew up, art was at times seen as a privilege of the upper classes, in Wales there has been a long tradition of ownership if all the arts by the working classes, whether in poetry, prose, painting or music. Long may it continue.

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