Rod’s passion for architecture, landscape and the elements are the chief inspirations for his work. “What interests me most is trying to create a mood of time and place rather than representational studies”.

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Rod grew up in Warwickshire and began his artistic career at the East Warwickshire College. He later attended the West of England College of Art, where he studied graphic design and illustration. Rod then set up his own design company in Oxford at the age of 24.

In 2010 Rod departed the graphics industry to become a full-time painter based at his home and studio in Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

Rod currently works in watercolour and ink, painting from memory or from his own photographs.

2017 SOFO Museum, Woodstock

2013 Artwork selected by the Oxford Art Society Exhibition

2012 ‘An Englishman In New York’ Solo Exhibition at One Space Art Gallery, Tribeca, New York

‘Woodstock to Manhattan’ Solo Exhibition at The Real Wood Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire