Artist statement
My current work is concerned, almost entirely, with the trees that grow on the hill near my
studio in North West Wales. Mine is not a conventional attitude toward landscape... the ‘vista’
does not concern me neither do the effects of light and shade, rather, sometimes seemingly insignificant aspects - such as a disappearing or overgrown path, a gnarled trunk or a tightly interwoven knot of branches and the spaces between them, wherein lie the ghosts of the past, the trees' own memories - become the basis for a painting or drawing.
Qualifications and training
- 1975 Foundation + BA (Hons) Fine Art, South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education (Art School), Cardiff
Solo exhibitions
- 2012 Ghosts of now and what was then - Recent Paintings, Millard & Lancaster, Shrewsbury (more info)
- 2000 Kew - Part II, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London
- 1999 Kew - Part I, Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street, London
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Tros Gynnal art exhibitions and auction, Swansea Museum, Aardvark and the Norwegian Church, Cardiff Bay, Swansea, Shropshire, Cardiff
- 2012 Summer Exhibition, Millard & Lancaster, Shrewsbury
- 2010 Tros Gynnal Art Exhibition and Auction 2010, Swansea Museum; The Atrium, Cardiff; Llangollen International Pavilion, Swansea, Cardiff, Llangollen
- 2008 Summer Nudes, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York
- 2007 Art Auction in support of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, The Building Centre, Store Street, London (more info)
- 2006 Liberte d'Expression, Barclays Global Headquarters, Canary Wharf, London, London (more info)
- 2006 Liberte d'Expression, Candid Arts Trust, London (more info)
- 2006 Mixed exhibition, Festiviteten Sagveien 2, Eidsvoll Verk, Norway
- 2000 New English Open, The Mall Galleries, London
Private commissions
- 2002 "No Pasaran", Portrait of Christopher Bratcher Esq., London
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2001 Laing Landscape Competition, The Mall Galleries, London
- 2000 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London
