Having started his career animating some of the films on the Mr. Men series he spent 30 years as an animation director, much of this time working for BBC and Channel 4 Schools Television. Some of the BBC programmes he worked on included "On The Road", "The Worm That Turned", "Vision On", "You and Me", "Words and Pictures", "Words and Pictures Plus", "Writing and Pictures", "Storytime", "Le Club - Les Aventures de Globo", and "Watch". Channel 4 credits include "Maths Mansion", "Rat-a-Tat-Tat", "Word Machine", and "Arts Cart".
In 2003 Hedley started DangerSpot Books, writing , illustrating and self-publishing this range of child safety picture books, covering topics such as road safety, trips and falls, fire safety, farm dangers, stranger dangers, and much more. The series of 17 titles have been published in China by several different publishers, many twice over, one has been published in Holland, and two in Hungary.
Many short stories of a spiritual content are also being published,"Memory of an Ill Wind", Ancient Publishing, ISBN 9781919648774.
Hedley now writes and self-publishes Historical Fiction under a new imprint, Ancient Publishing, "Serventa, Shadow of the Light", ISBN 9781919648705, "Serventa, Priestess of Atlantis", ISBN 9781919648712, "Serventa of Motherega", ISBN 9781919648729, "Serventa of Tutulümar", ISBN 9781919648750, "Serventa of Nova Talakar", ISBN 9798336882902, inspired by unique spiritual knowledge provided by The Erasmus Foundation where he lives and works as a volunteer and trustee of the charity. The seventh title in the Serventa series, "Serventa's Challenge", is being prepared for publication in the UK.
Originally brought up near the south coast Hedley moved to Suffolk thirty years ago to escape the kelpies, sprites and deer flies of Sussex. He has no religion but is a lover of nature, spiritual knowledge and wisdom.
All DangerSpot ebooks are published by Andrews UK as well as some other titles.
Other books by the author are:
“How to Draw 101 Super Heroes”
Top That Publishing ISBN 9781845107383
Four stories were commissioned by BBC Storytime
“Leroy's New Bike”
“Cyril's Bad Day”
Lutterworth Press ISBN 9780718828653
“Cyril's New Parrot”
Lutterworth Press ISBN 9780718828677
“Cyril's New Flower”
Lutterworth Press ISBN 9780718828691
“An Animator's Guide to
2D Computer Animation”
Focal Press ISBN 9780240515793
“NunsDrakka's Child
and other stories”
Children's Moral Stories ISBN 9781838403508