Just a few of the paintings I have produced over the years

A very clever art mistress by the name of Mrs Caddick prompted me, through a strange combination of humiliation and compliments lasting over several months, to get sufficiently angry and frustrated one day in school back in the early eighties that I went into a trance-like state and began to draw the strangest things.

Gone were my old boring subjects and techniques; those I had been using born from the artistic equivalent of rote learning and trying to please the more traditional art teachers from my earlier school days. Instead, surrealism and abstract art became "my thing". This was all simply because I was badly bullied at school and could hardly speak - Mrs Caddick taught me that there are other ways to communicate and art became my thing.

If your child is being bullied, I strongly advise (apart from counselling and attempting to solve the bullying problem directly) that you encourage your child to draw. It changed my life. My pictures were shown in school and local exhibitions and I won competitions - and suddenly, my peers began to respect me: perhaps I wasn't such a boring geek after all, they thought. As, of course, did I!

The below are just some of the drawings I have done - it is not easy to get these onto the web because they are too large to scan and you have to mess about taking photographs which do not convey the textures and techniques properly. But at least you get the idea! I will try and add more when I get time.

"Weird Horses" 1981	"Demon Drink" 1982	"Destruction" 1984	"Demons of the Mind" 1985
"Vibes" 1987	"It's My Life" 1999	Pending	"Pending"