Born: 1953
Retired from schoolteaching in 2007.
Have worked since as a teacher caseworker, and part-time guide in a Historic Scotland monument in Aberdeenshire.
2008 My first trip to USA to research the work of Alexander Gardner.
More information is available at my website: www.steinerartstudio.com
Author news
(14/1/14) Review of my book in the 'Banffshire Journal'.
(18/1/14) Review of my book in the 'Paisley Daily Express'.
Reviewed in 'The Scots Magazine'(04/2014), 'Amateur Photographer' (01/02/2014) and the 'Knock News' (03/2014).
Online review in 'Daily Mail Online (01/2014).
(01/05/2016)
Publication of 'Alexander Gardner: Visionary Photographer of the American Civil War'
Reviews in 'The Scots Magazine' (08/2016), and online, including 'Vedette', the online newsletter of the American Civil War Roundtable (UK).
(31/06/2017).
I appeared on the STV programme 'Peoples' History' in a segment on the life and work of Alexander Gardner.
(31/11/2017).
By invitation, presented lecture at Historic Environment Scotland monument, Duff House on 'Scottish Photographers of the American Civil War'.