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Since completing the Heatherley’s figurative painting diploma in 2002 I have been painting portrait and architectural commissions as well as other work in oils, and have exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Threadneedle Art Prize, the NEAC and other group exhibitions in London and elsewhere. In 2010 I was elected to membership of the NEAC.

Both my figure paintings and other work are done from preparatory drawings and direct from life, and in that sense all the pieces are ‘portraits’ whether the subject is a person, object or landscape. Particularly in the still life paintings, the objects being portrayed are less important in themselves, but provide the starting point to explore the colour, spatial and geometric relationships of the image. I have a particular interest in the interplay of the three dimensional subject with the geometry of the picture plane it is being translated into, and try to bring that quality out in the final painting. I draw all the time, both in the life room and elsewhere, and whatever the subject matter, all my work tends to be about rigorous drawing and the expressive use of colour to describe the form.

Selected exhibitions:

2013 Jenna Burlingham Fine Art

        Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize

        Russell Gallery

        Moorwood Art, Herefordshire

2012 Russell Gallery Summer and Winter Shows

        Moncreiff Bray Autumn Show

        Hampstead Affordable Art Fair

        NEAC Spring Show and Annual Exhibition

        reached second stage of NOACC at Chichester

2011 New English Annual Exhibition

        Battersea and Hampstead Affordable Art Fairs

        Wiltshire Fine Art Fair

2010 New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, three

        paintings chosen

        elected to membership of the New English Art

        Club

        RWA Annual exhibition, one of five 'highly

        commended' paintings          

        one of the final 30 painters in the Art of

        Giving National Art Competition

        reached the second stage of the NOACC at

        Chichester

2009 Josie Eastwood Fine Art Summer Exhibition

        Lynn Painter Stainers Art Prize, London 

        New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, winner

        of the Cecil Jospe First Prize

2008 Forged From Life Exhibition, The Gallery in

        Cork Street

        The Threadneedle Art Prize, Mall Galleries

        London and Amsterdam Affordable Art Fairs

        with Morgan Boyce Gallery

2006 Forged From Life Exhibition, The Gallery in

        Cork Street

        Moonbeam Trust Annual Exhibition

2004 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual

        Exhibition

Please click on the gallery page above to see some pictures