Alan lives in Worcester and confesses to having had no formal art training apart from a half day release at the Ryland Memorial School of Art in his last year at Senior School.
He owes much of his progress and style in recent years to that gained from his close friend, Professional Artist & Article writer Raymond Whitehouse.

Alan decided to take early retirement from his job as an Architects Advisor in the Construction Industry to concentrate more on painting and to search for landscapes both in this country and aboard.