Ian has exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, The Museum of Modern Art for Wales and at The Museum and Art Gallery, Worcester.

Wolverhampton Museum has purchased his work and he features on Saatchiart.com. Formerly, Ian studied at both Bath Academy of Art, Corsham and the Byam Shaw School, London where he graduated with distinction and received the Ernest Jackson travel award. He subsequently joined a pilot venture for art students entering the teaching profession at London University’s Whitelands College. From 1981 to 2002 he was Head of Art at Madeley Court School, Telford, Shropshire. In 2004 he and his family moved to France.
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‘One of the books that I reread is Martin Buber’s I and Thou. There is a passage where he uses the contemplation of a tree as part of his thesis to explain the interdependency of being in relation to others and if I take that as my reference point then my garden gives me that reciprocity to build my paintings. I want these paintings to help me to understand what painting is and to do that I need to figure out that interface between things experienced and remade. These paintings are not what you would see if you were standing where I stand but are the distillation, as best I can, of the experience of what I see in terms of paint. We see differently, we process what we see differently.
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It is an ongoing fascination: it is a part of the act of painting.’