Born 1957 Paisley, Scotland
Home & Studio : Somerset UK


EXHIBITIONS | OPEN and GROUP

2011
National Open Art | The Festival Theatre, Chichester
159th Autumn Exhibition | RWA, Bristol
ING Discerning Eye | Mall Galleries, London
Chymistry | Crescent Contemporary, Taunton, Somerset
Summer Show | Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset

2010
National Open Art | The Festival Theatre, Chichester
East End Promise | LondonNewcastle Project Space, London E2
The Art of Giving | Saatchi Gallery, Chelsea, London
The House of Fairy Tales Exhibition | Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, Wiltshire
Exquisite Trove | Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
Miniscule | Oblong Gallery, London N1
Open Painting | RWA, Bristol
The House of Fairy Tales Exhibition | Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

2009
Horn Of Plenty | Victor Wynd Fine Art, London
National Open Art | The Festival Theatre, Chichester
Exquisite Trove | New Art Gallery, Walsall
Something I Don't Do | Flowers East, London
RA Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy, London
Summer Show | Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset

2008
National Open Art | The Festival Theatre, Chichester
Figuratively Speaking | Atkinson Gallery, Millfield, Somerset
156th Autumn Exhibition | RWA, Bristol
RA Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy, London

2007
Jerwood Drawing Prize | Jerwood Space and Touring

2006
154th Autumn Exhibition | RWA, Bristol

Selected earlier:
1994 Shoreditch Portraits | The Tramshed, Hoxton, London EC2
1990 Portobello Art Festival | No Name Gallery, Portobello Road, London
1986 Camden Annual | Camden Art Centre, London
1984 Midland View 3 | Midland Group, Nottingham and Touring
1983 Camden Annual | Camden Art Centre, London
1980 The First Picture Show | Sainsbury Centre, Norfolk


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Consequences & Clusters | Crescent Contemporary, Taunton, Somerset
2006 Hestercombe Paintings | Lutyens Gallery, Hestercombe
1990 Recent Work | Wilson Hale, London
1989 Follies | Wilson Hale, London


PRIZES
2008 RBSA Imaginative Portrait Prize, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists

ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2006-07 Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset

COLLECTIONS
Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset UK
BBC The Open University, Buckinghamshire UK
Kazuko Hayashi, Tokyo Japan
Jibby Beane, London UK
Nat and Georgia Kramer, New York USA
Private Collections USA, Japan, ROI and UK

PRESS
Open Studios, Feature, Proof Magazine | E5-2008
Art That Puts Real People Delicately In The Picture, Terry Grimley, The Birmingham Post | 15.07.08

STUDIED
1977-80 Preston Polytechnic, Lancaster. BA(Hons) Fine Art
1976-77 Bath Academy of Art, Corsham