Biographical Info

Art Background  

I trained at the Ruskin School of Fine Art & Drawing for my Bachelor of Fine Art Degree 1982 and Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal Academy Schools, London 1987.  British Council Travel Scholarship to Bulgaria 1988-89 based at the Art Academy in Sofia.

Selected Exhibitions:

2021            RA Schools Alumni in the East Print Show at Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich

2019            'Legacy' RA Schools Alumni East Anglia Group celebrating 250 years of the Royal Academy Schools - Minories                     Galleries, Colchester

2018           'Legacy'  RA Schools Alumni East Anglia Group - 250 anniversary of Royal Academy  Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk

2017           Three Person Show - Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk

2016    From the Minds Eye - East Anglia Group at Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh

2016     Celebrate Landscape Open Show Art Exchange University of Esseex

2015     East Anglia Group, RE+new Gallery, Woodbridge

2013            East Anglia Group, Mandells Gallery, Norwich

 2013           ‘Stepping Out of Line’ Old Fire Station, Ely

 2012           ‘Span’ Great Yarmouth Festival                                                                                       

2011            Royal Academy in East Anglia (alumni)  Wingfield Arts, Suffolk

 2008            Battersea Arts Fair

 2006/03/00  Head Street Gallery Essex

 2006            Untitled Gallery at Throgmorton, London EC2

 2004            Stark Gallery, Lee Green, London

 2003            deliART Charterhouse Street, London EC1

 2002            Gallery One, Barnes, London SW13

 2002            Serious Pleasure – Modigliani Centre, Florence. Italy

 2001            Well Made – Artists & Designers in Newham, Stratford Old Town Hall

 2001            Anderssonhall at 83 Great Portland Street London W1

 2000            The Concertina Works, London N1

 1998            Royal Academy Schools Alumni Show  RA Schools, Piccadilly

 1996/7         Logos Gallery Barter Street London W1

 1997            Howick Contemporary Art at Cable & Wireless

 1993            Alternative Arts Chilton Street London W1

 1992           ‘Art for Sale’ Whiteleys and The Guardian

 1991           ‘Wolfson 25’ selected by Anthony Caro & Bridget Riley, Wolfson College, Oxford

 1991           Eva Jekell Gallery, London W11

 1990           The Eye Gallery, Bristol

 1989           Leicester Collection for Schools and Colleges

 1988           Mary Somerville Art Fair, Smiths Galleries

 1988           Hunting Group, Mall Galleries

 1987           Whitworth Young Contemporaries. Whitworth Museum, Manchester

 1987           Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery

 1983           Oxford Printmakers, Reading Museum  

 Awards:

 1988            British Council Travel Scholarship to Bulgaria

 1987           Jack Goldhill Business Sponsorship Award

 1987           David Murray Landscape Scholarship

 1981           Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize, Oxford University                                                                  

Six Paintings commissioned  2001 for Club Quarters Hotel, Wacker Drive, Chicago, USA by Mance Design & Architecture   My work is in public, corporate and private collections in the UK and abroad.

                     
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