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–current
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
EDGAR DEGAS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024- Hancock Gallery - Newcastle upon Tyne
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