Biography for website

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 astounding 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:-

Solo exhibition at Kidderminster Art Gallery in 1979

Solo Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield 1986

Solo Derby Museum and Art Gallery 1996

Wolerhampton Art Gallery 1999, Group show

Scarborough Art Gallery 2001, Group Show

The Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk, 2005, Group show

Sutton Bank National Parke centre, 2006, 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