I am mainly self- taught together with having undertaken many inspiring courses. I started painting seriously following an Intensive Foundation course at The Slade, UCL London in 1999 under Jo Volley, where I sold work and received great encouragement. Other commitments have meant an interrupted progress since, although I was fortunate to be chosen to exhibit an oil painting for an Annual Exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in the Mall Galleries, London. With more time, and since movíng to Dorset UK, I was delighted to be drawing and painting professionally.
In 2024 I moved back to the Isle of Wight, where I was born and my ancestral homeland, a constant source of wonderful memories and current inspiration. I am delighted to have discovered the wonderful Isle of Wight Art Club with its happy group of pleinair painters and also now have a new garden studio, the ideal place to develop and progress my journey as a painter. I hope to see you there one day.
Some Exhibitions
2014 Dorset Arts Weeks -Open Studio.
2014 The Lighthouse, Poole
2015 Dorchester Museum and Gallery (BAC).
2015 Old School Gallery, Yetminster.
2015 Durlston Castle, Swanage (BAC).
2016 Sherborne Abbey (SWA).
2016 Dorset Arts Week -Open Studio.
2018 Kingscombe Centre, Dorset. (BAC)
2018 Eype Centre for the Arts.
2018 Dorset Art Weeks -Open Studio.
2019 Durlston Castle Gallery, Swanage.
2019 Bishops Palace, Wells
2021 Shaftesbury Arts Centre (Solo)
2024 Isle of Wight Open Studios
2025 Isle of Wight Open Studios
2025 Quay Arts, Newport IOW
The Floral series arose from the confinement of lockdowns which led me to search my garden and locality for new sources of inspiration – exciting discoveries – the rich colour of a briefly flowering peonie, pops of colour in a winter garden and the poetic, fragile beauty in imperfection; fragments of dry beech leaves, broken twigs and fading petals.
Paintings held by clients in London and the South of England, the Midlands, Germany, France, Spain and Latín America..
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