Education:
1955-1957 Redland, Teacher Training College, Bristol
1988-1993 West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, Honours Degree
Affiliations:
1997 Royal Watercolour Society, Associate Member
1999 Royal Watercolour Society, Fellow
1999 New English Art Club
One Person Exhibitions:
1986 Compton Gallery, Windsor
1989 Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge
1992 Own Gallery, Sunningdale
1997 Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge
1998 Own Gallery, Sunningdale
Two Person Exhibitions:
1984 Clarges Gallery, London
1985 Compton Gallery, Windsor
Group Exhibitions:
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibitions, London
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, London
New English Art Club, London
Royal Society of Oil Painters, London
Royal Society of British Artists, London
Pastel Society, London
Bourne Gallery, Reigate
Century Gallery, Datchet
Century Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
Country Life Gallery, Hitchin
Gothic House, Totnes
Three Households Gallery, Chalfont St. Giles
Wherry Quay Gallery, Ipswich
The Barnes Gallery, London
Tidal Wave Gallery, Hereford
Clifton Gallery, Bristol
Rowley Contemporary Art, London
W.H. Patterson, London
Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge
Wren Gallery, Burford
World of Watercolours and Drawings Exhibition, London
1996 Barney’s Art Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1996 Prints Ancient & Modern, Lansing, MI
1997 Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997 Newman & Saunders Galleries, Wayne, Pennsylvania
1999 Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2001 Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002 McNay Art Fair, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2002 Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 Works on Paper, art fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY (Valley House Gallery)
Awards:
1989 Pastel Society, The Willi Hoffman Guth Award
1990 The Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition, The Chris Beetles Award
1994 The Royal Watercolour Society Award
Teaching:
1984-1987 Painting Courses
1984-present Painting Workshops for Art Societies
1987-present Painting Courses at Philipps House in Dinton, Wiltshire
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I simply cannot remember a time when I didn’t paint. The visual world has always meant a great deal to me, particularly in terms of light and colour. I am very much aware of my immediate surroundings and it is often within the home that I find my subject matter. I really don’t feel the need to go in search of subjects; they are all around me, wherever I happen to be; in the home, restaurant, or concert hall. I am particularly attracted to ordinary subject matter, which when bathed in a sympathetic light, becomes extraordinary.
But I also enjoy being out in the landscape and responding to it in terms of colour and light. My landscapes, like my interiors, are intimate, not vast open spaces. By bringing the subject towards the picture plane I seek a close and very personal relationship with nature. I am more concerned with my feelings about the subject than with topographical description.
Far more important to me than subject matter, are the abstract qualities of the painting itself. I am preoccupied with colour, light and space and the relationships of these qualities. Although the subject matter through light and colour may inspire me, in the end it is my emotional response to the paint itself that is all important. Much of my work begins with a quick drawing, an immediate response to the thing seen, and the painting develops from this, memory and imagination playing an important part. I never have a very positive idea about how the final painting will look. As soon as I make a mark, or place a colour, then the painting has its own life and makes its own demands. It is my concern as a painter to respond to these demands.
We really do live in a very beautiful world and I strive to record the way I see it, and the way I feel about it.
