• I was born in Bournemouth in 1971. After attending a foundation course at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design, I went on to Central & St. Martins College of Art in London achieving my BA (hons) in Fine Art Painting in 1993. Whilst painting and exhibiting continually since, I returned to Bournemouth where I qualified as a conservation quality picture framer. Creating work in a wide variety of media; charcoal, pastels, oils and watercolours, I paint still lifes, landscapes, portraits and, more recently abstract pieces. Whatever the subject matter, and the medium of execution, I am preoccupied with light, colour and composition and the way that these elements can create mood, form and visual interest. For this reason acrylics, with their quick drying times have become the medium in which most of my work is now executed. They allow a reaction to a subject to be recorded with an immediacy that neither oils or watercolours, by their natures, can facilitate.

    'I regard myself as a traditionalist, believing that, 'learning to see' and drawing are the necessary foundations from which work of quality, however diverse, ( representative through to abstract ), can evolve.'

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    Group Shows

    1991-93 The Lethaby Gallery, London

    1991-93 The Bridge Gallery, London

    1993 Degree Show, Central & Saint Martins College, London

    1993 ‘Art For Mayfair’, Brooke Street, London

    1993-11 The Mayfield Gallery, Bournemouth

    1993-99 The Daler Gallery, Bournemouth

    1993-11 The Business Design Centre, Islington

    1993-05 The Royal Horticultural Halls, London
    1998 Burton Sweet Art Prize, Black Swan Arts Guild, Frome
    1998 Laing Landscape Competition, Mall Gallery, London
    1998 Artistic License, London

    1998 Dorset Arts Week, Open Studio

    1998-99 Saint Martins Gallery, Ringwood

    1998-02 Walford Mill, Wimborne

    1998 Candid Gallery, London
    1999 Royal Bath & West Show

    1999 Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition

    2000 Karl Hoffer Geselleschaft, Charlottenburg, Berlin
    2000 Hampton Court
    2000-03 Bookends Art Centre, Christchurch
    2000-11 Fisherton Mill, Salisbury
    2001-10 Olympia, London
    2004 Lighthouse, Poole, Opened by HRH Queen Elizabeth
    2006 Battersea Contemporary Art Fair
    2007-09 Peter Hedley Gallery, Wareham
    2008 Obsidian Gallery, High Wycombe
    2009-10 Henley Arts Festival

    2021- 3 Turner & Thom

    2022 Red House, Open Exhibition, Christchurch

    2023 The Lighthouse, Poole - 'Family Lines'

    2023 Palais des Vaches - Autumn Show

    2023 Red House, Christchurch 'Winter Seen'

     

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    Solo Shows

    1992 ' A View of the Dorset Coast'

    1998 'Still Lives'

    1999 ' Singles

    2002 'On the Shelf'

    2008 'Solitude'

    Prizes

    1998 Second Prize, Black Swan Arts Guild, Frome

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