I'm an art historian, researching & writing on the history of picture frames, of all periods from the 14th to 20th century. For details of books and articles on frames, click on the Publications link on the left. You can now access a pdf file of my article on Pre-Raphaelite frames there.

The latest picture frame conference,The Transforming Power of the Frame, was held in New York in September (see Frame Conference 08 ). For the previous conference, held in Dresden in October 2005, go to this link: Frame Conference 05, and for a report on the papers given, see the National Portrait Gallery website. For the current exhibition on frames in Vienna, go to the Liechtenstein Museum , and for the one in Copenhagen see either the Statens Museum for Kunst , or the notice in Artdaily.org . For Paul Levi, see Memorial.

I take commissions for most types of artwork: I have designed greetings cards, copied Old Masters, painted murals, created logos & images for brochures, & produced all sorts of illustrations. I clean & restore oil paintings, and have designed several websites in addition to this one.

I write poetry, have been published in Outposts and Agenda , and have been placed in several competitions. In 2009 I won the Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection competition, came third in the Welsh Poetry Competition, had poems commended in the McLellan Poetry Award and the Aesthetica International Creative Works Competition, and was shortlisted in GRIST, the Wells Festival of Literatureand the Basil Bunting Poetry Award.