He then started work in order to support his family. Plummer was never a full time artist.
He studied art informally at the Community Arts Workshop, Durban, in 1987; in 1990 he attended classes in art run by the Technikon Natal; and in 1994 he attended printing making workshops run by the Durban artists, Greg Hayes, John Roome and Marlene Wasserman.
He worked in oil, oil pastel, watercolour and he was a printmaker, producing linocuts and woodcuts. He exhibited on group shows in Durban. In 2001 he held a one person exhibition at the BAT Centre, Durban. He is represented in public and private collections in SA.