Born in 1942,I was brought up in Dorset and studied painting at Bournemouth College of Art. During 1962 to 1964, following the award of a Travelling Scholarship, I lived and painted in southern Sweden where I was also able to exhibit my work.
Born in 1942,I was brought up in Dorset and studied painting at Bournemouth College of Art. During 1962 to 1964, following the award of a Travelling Scholarship, I lived and painted in southern Sweden where I was also able to exhibit my work.
In 1966 I began a forty year career in art education,teaching at a senior level , inspecting art in schools and examining GCSE and A Level art. In 2006 I made the decision to return to full-time painting.
Having grown up on the Dorset coast,my early works were responses to familiar and much-loved places such as Portland and the Purbecks. Although these places are sometimes returned to for source material,much of my more recent work has been made in response to a wider range of subject matter,often prompted by memories and recollections of times,places and experiences.
In addition to this widening of subject matter I have shifted towards work that now shows a greater concern for the problems associated with making a painting that will exist in its own right,as a thing in itself,as a piece of music might do,whilst still being a response to a visual and personal experience,something derived from the looking and feeling that precedes the making without being illustration.
See above + since 2006:
County Museum,Aylesbury: Group Exhibition: 2007
Bucks Open Studios 2007 to present
Bedford Street Gallery,Woburn: Gallery artist: 2007 - 2012
Carina Haslam Fine Art: Gallery artist: 2009 - 2012
Paul Watts Arthouse Gallery,Bournemouth: Gallery artist 2012 - 2016
Solo Exhibition Paul Watts Arthouse Gallery: 2013
Russell Cotes Museum and Gallery,Bournemouth (Group Show): 2013
Royal West of England Open: 2014
Royal Academy Summer Show: 2014
Menier Gallery,London (Group Show): 2016
Claydon Gallery,Claydon House,Buckingham (Group Show): 2017
Royal Academy Summer Show: 2017
Royal West of England Open: 2017
Claydon Gallery,Claydon House,Buckingham "A Sense of Place" (Group Show) 2018
Royal West of England Open 2018
Claydon Gallery Summer Exhibition 2018
Claydon Gallery Spring Exhibition 2019
South West Academy of Fine Art Open 2021
St Barbe Museum & Gallery Lymington Open Exhibition 2022
Longlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022