About
Aged 14 I found a book on Leonardo da Vinci and was amazed. My life had no direction at that point; Leonardo gave me direction and purpose in life. I wondered if I too could create awe like him. My life has been dedicated to that aim ever since. Decades of practice followed.
In my forties all my avenues of enquiry began to flourish. Crucially in this period I drew dancers in movement. This group with special needs were dynamic in their creativity. We were all ripe at the same time. I am extremely grateful to them and certain my drawings of their astounding dance were pivotal to my maturity as an artist. In my fifties I returned exclusively to painting in oil on canvas, convinced I had learned to translate my awe of the renaissance into the awe of my own experience.
My paintings and drawings are my most eloquent and deepest responses to being alive. They are my most profound consummation of love. They are the fullness of my heart speaking to the fullness of your heart. We are on intimate terms.
I have been a practicing artist for over fifty years. I work and live in Leicester, United Kingdom. I completed a Foundation Course at Stourbridge Art College 1974, BA in Fine Art at Cheltenham Art College 1975/8 and MA in Fine Art at Trent Polytechnic 1984/6
Exhibitions:-
1979 Kidderminster Art Gallery, Solo
1986 Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield, Solo
1996 Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Solo
1999 Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Group show
2001 Scarborough Art Gallery, Group show
2005 The Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk, Group show
2006 Sutton Bank National Park Centre. Solo, Lyke Walk Walk exhibition
In 2006 I was Artist in Residence for the North York Moors National Park Authority to record the Lyke Wake Walk in drawings and paintings for an exhibition marking the fiftieth anniversary of that walk. In 2007 I won a Lisa Ullam Travelling scholarship award to draw dancers at Derby Dance Centre.
Since my Lyke Wake Walk exhibition, I stopped seeking exhibitions and worked on my acrylic on paper dance paintings. From 2010 I have worked on my oil on canvas paintings. In 2023 having completed a big portfolio I began showing my work again.
2023
Collect Art, Tbilisi, Georgia. 7 drawings published in their Drawings and Sketches special edition.
One painting included in online exhibition, What I would have missed, St Petersburg, Florida.
2024
Collect Art, Tbilisi, Georgia. Ruby Red edition, 9 pages.
The Flux Review, edition 10, 2 pages.
The Holy Art Gallery, London. Virtual show: BORING, 4 oil paintings.
Omi Gallery, London. Online show, one oil painting ‘Man Crying’
Divide Magazine, issue 12, showing 3 oil paintings.
2025
Omi Gallery, online show ‘Magic Moments’ one oil painting ‘Bolton Abbey’
Basel Art Week. 3 paintings online with ArtBoxy
Divide Magazine, Issue 14, showing three acrylic dancer paintings