Born in 1964, Rod was born and still resides with his wife and two children in Greenock on the banks of the River Clyde.

Rod works as a photographer with the NHS; currently he runs the Medical Illustration Services department at the Glasgow Dental Hospital and School.

A few years ago, for personal reasons Rod decided that a change of direction was needed, and after narrowing it down to two choices he talked things over with his wife. The two choices were, study for another degree this time in psychology or start painting again. It is to the detriment of the mental sciences that the decision was made, paint!

Rod set about building his portfolio, which is still building. Influenced by the contrasts in his surrounding and the people he has met, Rod’s painting style is as varied as the Greenock weather.

As Rod explains, “I don’t paint any one particular thing, or in any one particular style. I try not to be overly influenced by anyone else’s work preferring to let the individual painting itself choose how it is going to look. When painting landscapes for instance it is the ‘feel’ of the place that is important and that is what I try to get onto the canvas. How the place felt to me on that particular day, how it feels to the viewer when they look at it is for them to say.”