Colin studied Interior and Environmental Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University 
 
He has designed productions of Travels with My Aunt (Chichester); Urinetown (Arts Ed); The Three Lions (St James Theatre); The Realness (The Big House); Rumpelstiltskin (Theatre Royal Bath/MAC Belfast); Travels With My Aunt (Menier Chocolate Factory); Blue/Orange(Theatre Royal Brighton/Tour); The Other School (St James Theatre); There We Have Been/Everything and Nothing (Sadlers Wells);  The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties (Birmingham Rep); Mummyji Presents, Happy Birthday Sunita (Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre); Mustafa (Kali Theatre Company/Birmingham Rep/Soho Theatre); The Constant Wife, The Picture, Private Lives, The Winslow Boy, Restoration, Northanger Abbey (Salisbury Playhouse); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Southbank Centre); Barabas (Hall for Cornwall); The Graft (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Blithe Spirit (Watford Palace Theatre); Plunder (Watermill Theatre/Greenwich Theatre); Outlying Islands (Theatre Royal Bath); The House of Bernarda Alba, Siwan, The Misanthrope, Endgame, Dominos (Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru); Anansi Trades Places (Talawa); Romeo and Juliet, Three Sisters (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Misanthrope, The Secret Rapture, Hysteria (Minerva Theatre, Chichester); The Blue Room (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Acis and Galatea, Dido and Aeneas, Hansel und Gretel (RSAMD, Glasgow); Aladdin (Costumes, Scottish Ballet); Twelfth Night (Liverpool Playhouse).