ABOUT

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“ Thick paint aggressively applied is bound to assert the physical circumstances of how a painting was done. Stained, scraped, poured, splattered and so on - then allowed to mix on the canvas to find its own course - the painting becomes about the act of painting, the artists physical involvement with it, and the inherent properties of the paint. Those properties are innately malleable and in tis painting the rumbustious physicality is belied by the control of colour. As one reads from left to right yellows bleed through the murky greys and the openly streak and splatter as the painting lightens up. The greys themselves contain a sullen but careful colour - embedded little incidents of red and green find muted harmony in the green and violet inflections of the grey.”

David Nicholson, 1983, Painters Choice Exhibition.

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EDUCATION

  • 1977-1980 Hull School of Art BA (Hons) Fine Art

  • 1981-1983 Reading University MA Fine Art

  • 1986 Triangle Workshop, Pine Plaines New York (British Council Travel Grant /Meyers Grant)

  • 1993 Emma Lake Artists Workshop, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

  • 1995-1997 Cardiff University Masters Fine Art

SHOWS

  • 1979 Northern Young Contemporaries (Manchester)

  • 1979 Drawing in Action (Arts Council Touring including Hull, Camden, Liverpool, Belfast, Edinburgh)

  • 1980 New Contemporaries at the ICA (Pall Mall, London)

  • 1983 Hull Artists Association Galleries - Solo show (Hull)

  • 1983 Painters Choice at little Missenden Festival - Group Show

  • 1984 Showroom Gallery - Two person show (Bonner Road, London)

  • 1986 Vortex Gallery - Two person show (Stoke Newington, London)

  • 1986 1st Triangle Alumni Exhibition (convent Garden, London)

  • 1994 ‘Visions’ exhbition, Clove Galleries sponsored by Reuters - Four person show (London)

  • 1997 ‘Aspects’ Group Show (London)

  • 1987-1997 Annual Open studio Exhibitions: Redcliff, Artspace and Sublime Studios

  • 2011 Catstrand Gallery - Two person Show (New Galloway, Scotland)

STUDIOS

  • Redcliff studios, Bristol

  • Artspace Studios, Bristol

  • Sublime Studios, Bristol

  • Washington, Tyne and Wear

  • Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland

  • Goukthorn, Penpont, Scotland