Originally from Sheffield, Yorkshire, I trained at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art. I now live and work in both Rodmell, Lewes, East Sussex and South West France.

I originally trained and worked in ceramics but about six years ago moved from ceramics into painting full time.

I am the founder and head of the Ceramics Diploma course at City Lit in London.

My work is loosely based on landscapes, seascapes and aerial views of areas I know well – West Penwith in Cornwall, South West France, The South Downs, the West of Scotland and the East Sussex coast.

Landscapes, seascapes – mapping the land -, memories and symbols are explored to convey meanings beyond representation, by combining painting with gestural drawing and mark-making using a variety of mixed media.

TECHNICAL NOTES

The paintings are works on gesso board.

I use mixed media – paint, charcoal, oil stick, ink, crayon, pencil etc. to build up layers of mark making, drawing and colour in the paintings.

Born – Sheffield,Yorkshire

1970-72 Manchester High School of Art
1972-73 Rochdale College of Art
1973-76 Camberwell College of Art, BA Hons First Class
1976-79 Royal College of Art, MA R.C.A

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Lund Gallery, Yorkshire
2009 Leeds Art College, Yorkshire
1990 Michaelson and Orient Gallery, London
1987 Oriel 31 Gallery, Wales
1987 Anatol Orient Gallery, London
1985 Anatol Orient Gallery, London
1983 Liberty One – Off, London
1981 Cale Art, London

Group Exhibitions

2018 6 Artistes! L’arrosoir, Figeac.
2018 Brighton Festival, UK
2018 Peregrinations, FLAC, Figeac & Cahors
2018 WAM Gallery, Cahors, France
2017 Brighton Festival, UK
2017 30 Ans, FLAC, Figeac & Cahors
2016 Rye Art Gallery
2016 Lherm Gallery – France
2016 Clifton Fine Art – Bristol
2016 City Lit – London
2016 Brighton Art Fair
2015 The Project Gallery – Arundel
2015 Brighton Art Fair
2013 Shirley Crowther Art – Ditching
2013 Plumbline Gallery, St. Ives
2013 Brighton Art Fair
2012 Rye Art Gallery
2011 Rochester Art Gallery
2010 Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales
2010 Brighton Festival, Sussex
2010 Affordable Art Fair, London
2009 Brighton Festival, Sussex
2009 Barratt Marsden Gallery, London
2008 Plumbline Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2008 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2008 Gallery Top, Derbyshire
2008 European Makers Gallery, Amsterdam
2008 Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art
2008 Beverve Gallery
2008 Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely
2007 Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2007 Porthminster Gallery, St. Ives, Cornwall
2007 Ceramics Now, London
2007 Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London
2000 City Lit, London
2000 Chichester Open Exhibition
2000 British Council Touring Exhibition – Brazil
2000 Angus Suttie Memorial Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
2000 Anatol Orient, London
1996 Salford University
1993 Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham and touring to 1995. “High Table”
1993 Crafts Council, London. “Strands on Contemporary Crafts”
1992 Leicester Schools Exhibition
1992 Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. “Sussex Open”
1991 Crafts Council, London. “Favourite things”
1990 Schloss Reinbek Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1990 Edinburgh College of Art for the International Ceramics Academy
1990 Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, U.S.A
1989 Galerie fur Englische Keramik, Sandhausen, Germany. “Change and Metaphor”
1989 Artsite Gallery, Bath. “Telling Tales”
1988 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1988 Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames. “Artists by themselves”
1988 Artsite Gallery, Bath. “Does it Pour”
1987 Davies Memorial Gallery, Newton, Powys
1986 On the Wall Gallery, Belfast
1985 Westminster Gallery, Boston , U.S.A
1985 On the Wall Gallery, Belfast
1984 Seven Dials Gallery, London “Out of Clay”
1984 Carmel College, Wallingford
1983 Whitechapel Gallery, London “The Whitechapel Open”
1983 Jane Baum Gallery, New York, U.S.A
1982 Amalgam Gallery, London
1980 Portal Gallery, London
1980 Mappin Gallery, Sheffield. “The hidden spirit”
1980 Cale Art, London
1978 Royal College of Art, London

Commissions

1980 City of Leeds Art Galleries, installed at Lotherton Hall
1979 The Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, London
1978 The Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells

Collections

Unilever PLC
Crafts Council, London
Leicestershire Schools Collection
South East Arts