Artist, writer, phenomenologist.

Mythspent youth, left school early, but then graduated Scottish School of Hard Knocks without a mark.

Fellow of Hawthornden. Winner of the silver medal, International Art Festival, Procida, Italy.

First novel, Nobody Dick in Dreamtime, published by 4th Estate in 1989.

Autodidact. First one man Art show - the Ideal Gnome Exibition. Thereafter, exhibited widely in UK and abroad. Gnomes, paintings, dichroic glass sculptures, jewelery, in private and national collections in UK and abroad. Gnomemaker to the late HRH Queen Juliana of the Netherlands.

With my then wife, renovated agricultural complex in Fife Scotland, into a residential Art Center. Various notable artist and musicians worked on projects there, including Simple Minds who created their album New Gold Dream, while at the Center.

Traveled widely over a number of years, and have lived in remote locations, as well as in various capital cities.

Highs and lows:
High: summit of a sacred mountain in the Sierra Madre with a shaman.
Low: dealing in dodgy furniture in Brick lane Market London, next to the National Front hang out.

Recent employment - 'the Republican Guard' at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh - a strange assignment for a writer. However, I completed Headfux in a cabin there... nice work if you can get it, Ma'am...

(if you want to know more, read my novels, they are all experienced based...)