The creator of these “ Gallery” pictures in a variety of photographic Pigment Printing Processes, originally a pharmaceutical chemist by profession, had always been interested in the photographic medium from an early age,and with his fathers Kodak folding camera began his photographic odyssey in 1939,with a family visit to Switzerland.

From that year on,the passion never dimmed,and after the difficulties and service of the following years,was able to take to this medium with increasing interest and facility.An abiding love of the beauty and character of fine art illustrations, exemplified in the intaglio printing methods of the gravure print, were realised in the various hand coated and controlled Pigment printing processes from the seminal years of the photographic ethos, those which were able to offer the ability to choose the base paper from so many thatwere around,the ability to offer any colour or nuance of tint as the worker should require and, above all, the ability to enable the artist to control tonalities and depth of shadow with creative intent.

Since 1948 on ,prints were exhibited in many national and international salons, in the medium of Gum-Bichromate, and in the Fresson process, to which his friend, Jose Ortiz Echague. a well known Spanish worker,had introduced him in 1950.From that time on followed an Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society and in the same year of 1953, a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts. At that time another interest developed in the use of the other pigment processes, namely Oil pigment and Bromoil printing, which were in vogue in those times, again the controlled artistic way in which the brush inking was possible gave a much more personal interpretation than that available from the various silver gelatine materials, which the majority of workers chose to use and print their negatives.

The author,now in his seventies, still finds, that despite his years as a professional photographer and a senior lecturer up to his retirement, that the passion still prevails, and so time now allows more of his pigment prints to be created, and thus work still flows from the atelier, for sale or exhibition.