Graham was born in 1946 and educated in Worksop where he still lives.
Although he has not received any formal art training, he has been a serious painter for many years.

As well as interior and still life paintings his landscapes and marine subjects are found over a wide area of the country, using oils, water colour, body colour, and acrylics.

Graham has had work accepted at many open exhibitions including Buxton, Derby and Hull Art Galleries, and he exhibits at the South Yorkshire Gallery, Doncaster. He shows work regularly in London and his work has been accepted for the Royal Water Colour Society open exhibitions at the Bankside Gallery, and has exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water colour, and the New English Art Club at the Mall Galleries.

Graham was winner of the Sounders Waterford Series Award at the R.W.S.
Among Graham's other interests are fell walking and rock climbing which is reflected in some of his landscape work.

'Although I have always considered myself an experimental artist, I feel that my work has changed dramatically in the past few years. I find myself moving away from the traditional pure watercolour landscapes which I favoured for many years, to paint more still life and interior subjects using a more contemporary approach with emphasis on the more opaque mediums such as oil, acrylic and body colour. I am very much influenced by the use of colour, sometimes very strong and vibrant, and at other times using the more subtle greys achieved by the mixing of complimentary colours.

I have come to realise that I need to produce my personal impression of the subject, however I feel very strongly that the viewer of my paintings should be able to participate in the work and, hopefully, see things in the images that have merely been suggested.'