Mick was born at Sheringham, on the North Norfolk coast. Growing up by the North Sea, he developed a profound understanding of its many moods and menacing adverse weather conditions, and the all consuming fascination and desire to paint it. In the late sixties, after reading Cyril Jolly’s book ‘Henry Blogg of Cromer’, Mick produced his first watercolour paintings of maritime rescues. The descriptions of the rescues, impossible feats against overwhelming odds and the courage of the lifeboat men who risked their own lives to save those in peril are what moved Mick to paint this subject.

Mick was a student at the Norwich School of Art, after which he worked in London for 15 years as a graphic designer and illustrator. Throughout the seventies Mick continued to paint maritime watercolours and oils and in 1980 he returned to Norfolk to paint professionally. Mick has since gained an international reputation as a marine artist of skill and accuracy, with paintings in private collections around the world.

Three highly successful exhibitions of paintings depicting firstly the rescues of Henry Blogg and crews of the Cromer Lifeboats, secondly the rescues of the Sheringham Lifeboats and thirdly the rescues of the Wells and Blakeney Lifeboats were held at Picturecraft of Holt, Norfolk in 2001, 2003 and 2006. These were the results of almost ten years work researching each service carefully from the RNLI reports and talking to people involved with these rescues.

Mick now lives and works overlooking the sea at Rottingdean on the Sussex coast. He divides his time between painting and teaching and is currently working on the fourth book in the lifeboat series, The Rescues of the Caister Lifeboats.