Born and raised in Manchester, Ian is a frustrated cartoonist who initially trained as an architect and practised in the UK, Germany and India before returning to graphic artwork. He now lives and works in west Wales as an artist and editor specialising in international arts/architecture publications.

He first developed an interest in screenprinting while working for a firm of architects in Ahmedabad, northwest India, who produced prints of their buildings using traditional miniature-style techniques such as flattening-out of perspective and deep, pungent colours. These giclée prints are reproductions of his large hand-printed screenprints of Pembrokeshire’s coastline. They contrast with his other series of black-and-white pen-and-ink works, minimal pencil-line drawings and ceramic decals of his work on porcelain panels in collaboration with his wife, ceramic artist Maria Jones.

Ian has also collaborated on publications with Sony Award-winning photographer Siobhán Doran – the latest being the illustrated book Houses that Sugar Built: An Intimate Portrait of Philippine Ancestral Homes (ORO Editions, 2023), to which he contributed an Introduction and Architectural Overview essay.