Designing for performance has always at best involved designing for the whole production, conceiving a theatre piece in totality and working in close partnership with the lighting designer.Trained as a theatre designer at Birmingham College of Art, 1964-67 having previously considered Architecture or Fine Art. Theatre design at Birmingham Repertory Theatre (Resident Designer '68-'70), Liverpool Playhouse, Greenwich Theatre, Theatr Clwyd and six years as Head of Design at Manchester Library Theatre ('73-'79), including the transfer of a production to the Cottesloe Theatre ("Sell-Out"). Later free-lance work has included Greenwich Theatre, the Traverse Theatre, Leeds Playhouse, Leicester Haymarket Studio, Sheffield Crucible, the MAC, Birmingham ("The Wall", "Satyagraha", "King"), Duchy Ballet ("Swan Lake", "Peter and the Wolf", "Coppelia") and the Royal Northern College of Music ("Into The Woods", "The Queen of Spades"). "Tomorrowland" was designed for a production sung in English at the Novaya Opera House in Moscow in 1999.
Taught Theatre Design at The Nottingham Trent University from 1980 to 1995. Has attended and given papers at numerous conferences on scenography and education in the UK and overseas. Now concentrating on design for music theatre, including ballet and returning to the Fine Art painting which formed part of the course in theatre design at Birmingham.