About Me

Everything I write, and everything I see, begins with where I came from.

I was born and raised in a small mining village in South Wales, where life was hard and putting food on the table was a daily concern. My options were limited — work in the coal mine or factory. But both had already taken too much: my father and grandfather were miners, and both were dead before their time.

My path took a different turn. Education became my escape, and studying history, economics, and psychology at university changed everything.

To support myself through those years, I took on manual work — in coal yards, on production lines, in factories. It was tough, unrelenting work, and it taught me the meaning of real labour. I learned to respect it — and to be honest, it made me determined not to have to do it for the rest of my life.

I went on to build a business career that spanned more than forty years and took me all over the world. I worked with people at the top of the corporate ladder — some generous and inspiring, others driven by power or greed, indifferent to those beneath them. Those years taught me a great deal: how power operates, how systems shape lives, and how easily the voices of the overlooked can be lost in the noise.

In 2019, I chose to slow down. I now live quietly in the heart of Snowdonia National Park, surrounded by ancient mountains, shifting skies, deep forests, and the steady presence of the sea.

I write stories and make photographs rooted in memory, history, and landscape — not to escape the past, but to make sense of it.

This is my way of staying present — and human — in a world that too often forgets what matters.