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