ARTIST PROFILE
Education
Royal Academy Schools, London (1981-84) PG Dip RAS
Liverpool Polytechnic (1977-80) Fine Art BA (Hons)
Derby College of Art and Technology (1976-77) Art Foundation Course
Open Exhibitions
Preston Portrait Challenge 2023 - First Prize
Blackburn Open Art Exhibition, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery 2022 - First Prize
'Pure Gold' Award Winning Artists, Mall Galleries 2022
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours 2022 - Winner of The Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition 2020
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1985 (x2), 1986, 1990, 1991, 2012, 2017 (x2)
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2013, 2015
Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London 2014
BP Portrait Award Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London 1986, 2010
Laing Art Competition, Salford Art Gallery 1998
Derby City Open, Derby Museum and Art Gallery 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012
Spirit of London, Royal Festival Hall, London 1984
Royal Overseas League Art Exhibition, Overseas House, London 1984
Pick of New Graduate Art, Christies, London 1984
Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 1981
National Open Art Exhibition, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield 1980
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One Person Exhibitions
Prism Contemporary, Blackburn 2017
Representations of Landscape, Rossendale Museum 2011
Steward’s Art Gallery, Clitheroe Castle 2010
BBC Radio Lancashire, Blackburn 2009
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool 1998
Other Exhibitions
‘Self and Others’ Neo Arts, Bolton 2018
'Those Who Can' Bureau Arts Centre, Blackburn 2014
'Streets Places Journeys' Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery 2012
Northern Art Group, Blackpool University Centre Gallery 2012
BP Portrait Award Tour, Usher Art Gallery Lincoln, and Aberdeen Art Gallery 2010/11
‘Inspired’ Steward’s Gallery, Clitheroe Castle - Selectors First Prize Winner 2009
‘Making Connections’ Kunstammlung Neubrandenburg, Germany 2007
‘Making Connections’ Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery 2006
Burlington Fine Art, London 2005
RAS Alumni Exhibition, Royal Academy Schools, London 1998
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