I continue to travel with my sketchbook, a practice I started as a student at Camberwell School of Art. Drawing has always been the starting point of my work and exploring these ideas leads to mixed media works and paintings.
A present project involves looking at my garden and trying to find a spontaneous way of composing the image. I’ve a target of one hundred quick drawings using different drawing media each time so every one is ‘of the day and the moment’. I accept the result both good or bad as I learn from both.
Born in Leicestershire and brought up in London. Studied at Camberwell School of Art in the sixties when I was lucky enough to have Christopher Chamberlain, Dick Lee and Michael Rothenstein as tutors to name just a few. Was elected a member of The Royal Society of British Artists in 2001.
I worked for EMI, Rolls Royce, IBM and ICL and have contributed to the Watson-Guptill publication Learn to paint and draw published in 2003 and Cassell published the foundation course Oils and Acrylics in 2004. My works are in public and private collections in the UK and private collections in the USA, Australia, Germany, Greece, India, and France. I am a member of the London Sketch Club indeed the Camberwell habit of using my sketch book daily is still maintained. I now live in Rochester where I have a studio opening into the garden which together with walking and looking at people and places both here and abroad are very inspirational in my work.
New English Art Club
Royal Society of Oil Painters
Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
The Folio Society
The Mercury Gallery, London and Edinburgh
Graffiti Gallery, London
The Drew Gallery, Canterbury
The Fry Gallery, Saffron Walden
Lloyd’s of London Open View
Shore Line KIA University of Kent & Canterbury, Darwin College
Inside, Outside The Royal College of Pathologists London
HSBC London
Still Alive: Contemporary Still Life Painting at the Mall Galleries, September 2013
Regular Exhibitions:
Mall Galleries RBA
Bankside Gallery – RE National Open Print Exhibition, SGFA
Menier Gallery SGFA
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2015,16)
Affordable Art Fair
Solo Exhibitions:
Northcote Gallery London (2011)
Trinity Gallery Tunbridge Wells (2012)
Rye Art Gallery (2017)
Selected Group Shows:
Kent Painters Group Sevenoaks Kent
Pure Arts Group East Sussex
Pushing Print Margate
Rye Art Gallery East Sussex
West End House Gallery Smarden Kent
Wing Gallery Wadhurst East Sussex