I paint landscapes, portraits and still life. I am interested in the timeless, folklores and natural history.
I paint every day and have done for more than 30 years.
Born 1969 Pembury, Kent, United Kingdom.
Exhibitions
2016 Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex
Byard Art, Cambridge
The Garden, Artmonger, Burnham Market, Norfolk
31 Portraits, Creek Creative Gallery, Faversham, Kent
2015 Rye Art Gallery, Rye, East Sussex
RWS Open Competition, Bankside Gallery, London
Byard Art, Cambridge
Works on Paper Art Fair, Science Museum, London
2014Opem 3 East Midlands Open, The Collection & Usher Gallery, Lincoln, 15 works selected by artists Mark Leckey (Turner Prize 2008), Jess Flood Paddock and curator Ashley Gallant
2013 A Husk of Hares, Arts Council & Babylon Gallery Touring Exhibition, 21 works touring to
22 June-21 July Wisbech & Fenland Museum, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
27 July-25 September March & District Museum, March, Cambridgeshire
5 October-10 November Babylon Gallery, Ely, Cambridgeshire, illustrated catalogue
44th Eastern Open, Kings Lynn Art Centre, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. Curator Choice Award (Kate Farrell, The Lowry, Salford) illustrated in catalogue p36
13 Artists Associated with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Babylon Gallery, Ely
2007-13 Cambridge Open Studios, artist’s open house
2010 Scarabs & Stink Bugs, Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge, Darwin Bicentenary Celebration exhibition
Cambridge Resource Centre, York Street, Cambridge
Tank Bridge catalogue by Timothy Wilcox, Cambridge Open Studios
2009 Spring Meadow, Space 4 Gallery, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Peterborough
2008 Four portraits, Cambridge City Guildhall, Market Square, Cambridge
2007 With Jane Thewlis, Rugg Centre, The Leys School, Cambridge
Steeple Morden Open, Steeple Morden, Essex, Selected by Anthony Green RA
21st Century Watercolour, Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London
KSF Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Gallery, London, touring to
Manchester Town Hall, Manchester
Six Clifton Street, Prestonville Trail Open Houses, Brighton Festival Fringe, Brighton
2006 Museum Objects, Borders Bookshop Gallery, Cambridge
With Helen Humphries, Rugg Centre, The Leys School, Cambridge
The Discerning Eye, Mall Gallery, London, selected by Stuart Pearson Wright, illustrated in catalogue p22
2006 21st Century Watercolour, Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London, Daler Rowney 1st Prize
2004 21st Century Watercolour, Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1st Prize
RA Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London, illustrated in catalogue p54
Conyers & Company, High Street, Battle, East Sussex
2003 The Small Hours, Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery, Kent
21st Century Watercolour, Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London
2001 Year of the Artist, Artist in Residence (yota ref. 603) 3 features with 21 works illustrated in newspaper, magazine and free news throughout 2001, exhibition of 34 watercolours touring to
12 May-30 May Trinity Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
5 June–28 August Courier Newspapers Sevenoaks Office, High Street, Sevenoaks, Kent
3 September-20 Decembe r Courier Newspaper Office, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
1997 September Art Show, Wadhurst East Sussex
Turtle Fine Art, Rye, East Sussex
1995 Brighton Festival Open, Corn Exchange, Brighton
1992 Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, Islington, London
KIAD Drawing Show, Canterbury Art College, New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent, 1st prize.
Prizes and Awards
2007 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 1st Prize, RWS 21st Century Watercolour
2006 Daler Rowney 1st Prize, Royal Watercolour Society 21st Century Watercolour
1992 Drawing Prize, 1st Prizewinner, KIAD Canterbury Art College.
Public Collections
Cambridge City Council, Cambridge Borough Council
Heritage Education Trust, Northampton
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, Kent
Kent & Sussex Courier Newspapers Group, Kent
Education
1995 Further & Adult Education Tutor
1992 BA Hons Fine Art Painting, Canterbury
1989 BTEC National Diploma General Art & Design, Eastbourne
Teaching & Artist in Residence Projects
2000-06 Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery
2006 on University of Cambridge Botanic Gardens
2006-15 University of Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum
2006 Heritage Education Trust, Holdenby House, Northamptonshire
2006-10 Vital Communities, 10 locations across East Anglia
