Born in Johannesburg, Ian obtained a Fine Art Diploma and Teacher’s Diploma from the Technikon Pretoria (now the Tshwane University of Technology) and a Masters degree in Art and Design from the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom. Formerly, he was Head of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts of the Tshwane University of Technology for17 years and taught there for 42 years.
Ian has exhibited extensively in this country and abroad. His work is represented in several private and public art collections locally and internationally