Roy has been creating pictures throughout his professional life, starting as a television cameraman over twenty years ago. The transition from the hi-tech world of digital TV cameras to the more old-fashioned techniques of oil paint on canvas has seemed a very natural one. After all, it is still all about making pictures.

He was pleasantly surprised to sell the first painting he ever exhibited and has since gone on to have work exhibited with the prestigious New English Art Club (NEAC) and the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) as well as the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.

In 2007 he was elected an Associate Member of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers. In May 2007 he held his first solo exhibition by invitation of the Dolphin House Gallery in Devon.