The name G-Force Graphics came into existence in February 1993 when I was working as a flying instructor at the Edinburgh Flying Club. I began using the name G-Force as a banner for the club magazine which carried the usual club news, articles from members, book reviews and aviation photographs. I contributed to and edited the magazine from that February until I handed it on in January 2000. By that time it was a very different working environment from those simpler days back in 1993.

My involvement in photography and art goes back a long way when, at the age of eleven, I borrowed £1.00 (a huge sum) from my father and started to do contact prints of negatives taken on a Ziess Icon 120 roll-film camera. Eventually I graduated to a proper darkroom with a real enlarger, but that was after several very Heath-Robinson contraptions which included building an enlarger out of an old 10x8 wooden camera. The print quality was awful, but the learning experience was wonderful.
Over the years I have owned and used a variety of cameras starting with my first single lens reflex, a Practica VB which was eventually replaced with a Miranda G. Then came a variety of Nikons, Bronica's, and now I use Nikon digital cameras. Several years ago I sold my darkroom preferring to do all my black and white printing on the computer. No more stained fingers and hours in the dark.

Although Photography was and is my main passion, I became interested in painting and began with brush on canvas. During a trip to Florida I found a section on airbrushing while browsing in a bookshop. I immediately purchased a DeVilbis Sprite airbrush and began to experiment. The airbrush is a superb instrument for painting smooth tonal gradations for metals, skin tones and skies. The paintings are a mixture of airbrush, brush and pencil.

I hope you enjoy the photos and artwork on this site and I would welcome any comments you care to make.