Born and brought up in a fairly remote area of Hertfordshire, England, a region which he loves and in which he still lives and works, John has spent over forty years in travel and research that has taken him from one end of Europe to the other and far beyond. First-hand observations of cultures Asiatic, European and American, both ancient and modern can be found in his work, adding to it a sometimes unexpected quirkiness.

John is first to admit his luck in time and place. Growing up next door to Henry Moore, it would have been surprising had not the impressionable and inquisitive young John been interested in all the comings and goings in Moore's garden. Years later, after a lengthy apprenticeship that included all aspects of sculpture from building armatures and making enlargements to patinating every size of bronze cast, Moore became to rely upon John to carry out the checking of his sculpture. 

• 1987 Artist in Residence, Margaret Dane School, Bishop’s Stortford 
• 1986 Teaching Assignment, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria 
• 1973 Arts Council Grant to enlarge works for an exhibition in 1974
• 1972 – 1979 Member of Advisory Panel at Playhouse Gallery, Harlow 
• 1969 Exhibits for the first time at the Pace Gallery, London 
• 1960 Becomes Henry Moore’s assistant (and remains so until Moore’s death in 1986). Starts to create his own sculptures. 
• 1958 Enters his father’s building business which did work for Henry Moore
• 1942 Born in Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire.