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1974-78 Camberwell School of Art & Crafts, BA in Fine Art
1980-83 Royal College of Art, MA in Painting
2007- present Tutor, Putney School of Art
2017- present Member of The Arborealists

 

 

 



GROUP EXHIBITIONS INCLUDE

2024

 

2023

Forests, Woods & Groves, The Arborealists, Batsford Gallery, London

The Quietness of Feeling, Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery

Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London

2022

Trees and the Sacred, Norwich Cathedral Hostry, Norwich

Regeneration, Queen’s Green Canopy Project, Nature in Art, Twigworth, Glos

2021 Being with Trees, Bermondsey Project Space, London
2020 Arborealists in Exmoor and Dartmoor, Somerset Museum, Taunton
2019 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
2018,20 The Arborealists in Lady Park Wood, Monmouth Museum, Monmouth
2017 Drawn, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2015 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
2014,16 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2014    Portrait Painters Today, Milton Gallery, St Paul’s School, London
2008,09 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
1999 Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
1995-96 Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, touring, Japan
1990,91 South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1990    BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1987,88 South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
1985,86 Spirit of London, Royal Festival Hall, London
1984 John Player Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts 5th National Exhibition, touring UK
Small is Beautiful - Portraits, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1983 Graham Paton Gallery, London (with Mary Mabbutt)
1981 Stowells Trophy, R.A. Galleries, London
1979    New Contemporaries, I.C.A., London
1978 Nudes, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

 

AWARDS/PRIZES

2014 Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, Runner-up 
1990 BP Portrait Award, First prize

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Portrait Gallery, London

 

PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS SINCE 2000 INCLUDE:

2000 Helen Williams, High Mistress, St Paul’s School, London
2001 Professor Amartya Sen, Master, Trinity College, Cambridge
2002 Sir Ewen Fergusson, Chair of Governors, Rugby School
2002 Nina Bawden, novelist
2007 Professor Dame Sandra Dawson, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
2009 Professor Adrian Smith, Queen Mary, University of London
2011 Professor Sir Nicholas Wright, Warden of Barts and the London
2016 Dr Felicity Heal, Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford University

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Philippa Beale & others, Forests, Woods & Groves, Art from the Arborealists, Batsford Books, 2024

George Peterkin, Tim Craven & others, Art Meets Ecology, Samson & Co., 2020

William Packer, The Financial Times, June 1990

Brian Sewell, The Evening Standard, June 1990

Marina Vaizey, The Sunday Times, June 1984

John Russell Taylor, The Times, October 1983