He had his first exhibition in 1974 - Landscapes and Seascapes of the Cape and has had numerous one-man and joint exhibitions since then. In 1983 he became fascinated by the similarities of patterns in natural objects - in clouds, foam, rockfaces, bark, moss and plumage. He had a super-realist exhibiton on this theme in 1984. He specialised in portraiture from 1985 and has received several important private and public commissions. In 1993, following an enthusiastic response to his 'Black Eagle on Mountain Top' (the work went to Hong Kong after an exhibition at the Hout Bay Gallery), he turned to painting wildlife full time.

He has travelled extensively for accurate reference material through all the major game parks in South Africa. His work has been purchased by local, national and international buyers. He has also exhibited successfully at the Christie's Wildlife Auction in London. He believes that wildlife art has a vital role to play in raising awareness of the desperately precarious state of our natural environment and that its increasing popularity is connected with an often unconscious yearning for nature and the wilderness which is locked up within the soul of industrialised humanity. This was a phenomenon described most eloquently by the late Sir Laurens van der Post (with whom the artist corresponded).