While largely self taught, he studied art at the Waterford Technical School and NCAD, and printing at NCAD, Blackchurch, and Airfield Print Studios. He has had fifteen one and two person exhibitions and has taken part in numerous group gallery and open exhibitions. His work ranges from stylised figurative to landscape watercolours, oils and etchings. Influences include his German grandmother’s work, modern Irish and classical European painters, and the Irish landscape as well as a parallel career in Forestry.