 There, he met fellow student and landscape painter Len Tabner who remained a close friend in later life.He and his wife moved to Bethesda in 1969, a village near Bangor and close to the Penrhyn Quarry.He taught part-time at Liverpool School of Art until 1974, then at a local school, Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen, and then at Coleg Menai, but he concentrated more on developing as an artist.