Artist Biography

1994/95 Postgraduate Diploma, Anglia Ruskin University
1978/82 BA Hons. Fine Art, University of Reading
1977/78 Amersham College of Art, Buckinghamshire
1976/77 Berkshire College of Art, Maidenhead

Training and Other Activities

Advanced Abstract Painting MA, Academy of Art, San Francisco, I semester
Painting used for cover of book of poems by Patricia Clark, Michigan University Press
Founder of Cambridge Artworks Studios, artist run studios, gallery/workshop
Organiser of monthly slide and lecture series at Cambridge Artworks
Henry Moore Sculpture Studio, London, sculpture course.
Public Art Training programme run by Commissions East Eastern Arts.
Selector for Peterborough Open exhibition 1996 & 1997
Participant in NVQ seminar for Arts & Entertainment Training Council.
Travel and study visits to Paris, Turkey, Canada, USA, India, Morocco, Peru, Australia and China.

My first art practice was at Open Hand Studios in Reading, exhibiting sculpture widely, but also paintings, prints and drawings.Then, on moving to Cambridge, taking a studio at Wysing Arts while initiating the setting up of Cambridge Artwork Studios for artists in the city. This has exhibition and workshop facilities, and is still thriving. The current studio is in beautiful countryside in north Oxfordshire.

I worked mainly as a sculptor until five years ago when, after living in San Francisco for six months, I concentrated on oil painting.

I have taught many Adult Education classes, workshops and summer schools and done numerous projects with schools, going in as an Artist in Residence.

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Clare Hall, Cambridge
2009 i2 Gallery Saffron Waldon
2006 Artspace Gallery, Cambridge
2003 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Lincs
2002 Churchill College, Cambridge
2002 'Bags and Bones' Julia Heffer Gallery Cambridge
2002 'Time on its Own', Woodlands Art Gallery, Greenwich, London
1999 Churchill College, Cambridge
1998 'Tundra', Sculptures. Paintings and Prints, King's Lynn Art Centre
1997 Sculptures and Prints, Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge
1995 'Magic, Myth and Malice', Sculptures, South Hill Park, Berkshire

Group Exhibitions

2011 Meller Merceux Gallery Oxford and Witney
2011 West Ox Arts Gallery, Bampton
2011 Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2008 Cambridge Galleries.
2007 Short-listed Celeste Art prize 2007
2007 Artist of the Year SAA 2007
2005 'Lifeworks', New Hall Cambridge
2000 'Inner Symbols, Outer Signs'. Brewhouse Gallery, Grantham.
1999 'Drawings for All', Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
1998 'in dent', Sculptures, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud.
1994 'Drawings for All', Gainsborough House, Sudbury
1993 Dimensional Printmakers, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
1992 'Drawings for All', Gainsborough House, Sudbury
1991 Cleveland International Drawing Biennale
1991 Fifth Humberside Print Biennial. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.

Public Sculpture Commissions

2000 Designed new courtyard floor, Histon School, Cambridge
1992 'Bagged'. Bronze commissioned by Reading Council for town centre.
1992 'Wrapped Lion', commissioned sculpture, Forbury Gardens, Reading

Works in numerous collections in the UK and abroad.