BIOGRAPHY
Born, London 1965
Graduated Newcastle University 1988
BA Fine Art (1st class)Lived in Marseilles, France 1988-92
London Studio, Chiswick 1993-97
Chertsey Studios, 1997-2003
Lived in Languedoc, France 2003-2011 which included two prolonged periods travelling and working in Greece and staying on the island of Ithaca
Settled in West London 2011
Wimbledon Art Studios, London, 2011-2024
6 months spent in Australia - Coburg Studios Melbourne Oct 24-March 2025
Delta House Studios, London - 2025-ongoing
Turps Off Site Programme 2025/26
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
EDGAR DEGAS
BEACH LIFE | Shop prints
NAVIGATION | Shop prints
SCOTTISH GLOW | Shop prints
PAST EXHIBITIONS
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2026- See through - group show -SafeHouse 1 Peckham,,London
2026 Turps Off Site End of year Exhibition _ Thames side studios, London
2025/2026 Turps Banana Off site Programme
2024- Hancock Gallery - Newcastle upon Tyne - selected works held
2023 - Robertson Fine Art - Edinburgh
2023 -” Pondering “Graham Hunter Gallery - Solo
London Baker St.
2022 - “Pond Dipping”Graham Hunter Gallery - Solo
London Baker St -
2021 - Colour as deep and rich” Graham Hunter Gallery _
London Baker St. - Solo
2020 – Extravagant Light – Locality & imagination:Solo exhibition at Graham Hunter Gallery, London
2014-2024 – Frivoli Gallery, Chiswick
2017-2024 – Turner Barnes Gallery- Essex.
2014-2017 – Corte Real Gallery, Portugal
2011-2024 – Open Studios, Wimbledon Art studios,
May/Nov 2014 – Selected works: Box Galleries, Chelsea
2014-2024 – Selected works: The Art Agency, Esher
2014, 2015 – Oil & water Gallery, Wandsworth
2014, 2015 – Chelsea Art Society, Chelsea Town Hall,
, 2014-2024 – AAF Battersea & Hampstead with Nicholas Bowlby
2014, 2016 – AAF Bristol with The Art Agency Esher
2017-2024 – Fresh Art fair Cheltenham with The Art Agency Esher
2018, 2019 – Edinburgh Art Fair with The Art Agency
2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 – Solo exhibition: A&D Gallery, London
2015, 2016 – RWA (Bristol) Open Exhibition
2016, 2018, 2019 – SWA Open Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2016 -2019 – Quay Gallery Aberdour, Fife, Scotland
2017 – Solo exhibition: The Turner Barnes Gallery, Essex.
2017 – The National Open Competition: Exhibition, Barge House, Oxo Tower, London
2018 – Long listed for the John Moores Painting prize
2018 – Autumn exhibition: Ashdown Gallery with the Oil & Water Gallery
2019 – Blurred Lines: Joint show at Graham Hunter Gallery, London
2019 – Autumn Exhibition: Rye Oil & Water Gallery, Wandsworth
PRIOR TO 2012 EXHIBITIONS
London at Whiteleys, Fulham, Notting Hill Gate with Nicholas Bowlby Gallery; Teddington, with the Smith Gallery/Mackenzie Gallery; Molesey with The Molesey Gallery; Cornwall, at the Salthouse gallery in St Ives; and in France – Paris, Marseilles, Cleremont L’ Herault, Parisot International Art Fair, Festival de Vallories.
“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
EDWARD HOPPER
