As well as exhibitions, the artist has a long history of working with community groups and making public artwork:

'The Forth Yacht Club in South Queensferry was the first ever commission; it involved drawing up plans and producing a mural for their meeting room, which was back in 1973. This was painted directly onto the wall and I remember it being quite scary at the time.'

Since then he has worked on painting commissions for the NHS (a 30 metre mural at St Georges Hospital, Morpeth); several paintings for the NRG Offices (private recruitment company) in Grey Street Newcastle; a number of drawing commissions for Northumbria Probation Service; sculpture commissions for: the Blue River Bistro, Riverside Training and ETEC Training, all in Sunderland; as well as many private commissions that continue to occupy the artist’s time today.

'Working within various community groups has been good fun as well as a great experience to me personally. Young people have benefited by developing social skills and therapeutic for those people recovering from mental ill health. The artwork is important of course and I take great pleasure from past achievements.'

More recently the artist has turned his attention to a more functional artwork, the 'Bee Hotel'.

'I’m currently working on a Bee Hotel commission (with more in the pipeline) for a garden near Amble in Northumberland. It is a traditional construction and I’m quite enthusiastic about the concept of Bee Hotels, having read much about the plight of the bee. My intention is to build a number of these, using both contemporary and traditional construction methods and materials.'