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Since completing the Heatherley’s figurative painting diploma in 2002 I have done portrait and architectural commissions, other work in oils, and have exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Threadneedle Art Prize, the NEAC and other group exhibitions both 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:

2011 New English Annual Exhibition

2011 Battersea and Hampstead Affordable Art Fairs

2011 Wiltshire Fine Art Fair

2010 New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, three paintings chosen

2010 elected to membership of the New English Art Club

2010 RWA Annual exhibition, one of five 'highly commended' paintings          

2010 one of the final 30 painters in the Art of Giving National Art Competition

2010 reached the second stage of the NOACC at Chichester

2009 Josie Eastwood Fine Art Summer Exhibition

2009 Lynn Painter Stainers Art Prize, London 

2009 New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, winner of the Cecil Jospe First Prize

2008 Forged From Life Exhibition, The Gallery in Cork Street

2008 The Threadneedle Art Prize, Mall Galleries

2008 London and Amsterdam Affordable Art Fairs with Morgan Boyce Gallery

2006 Forged From Life Exhibition, The Gallery in Cork Street

2006 Moonbeam Trust Annual Exhibition

2004 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition

Please click on the gallery page above to see some pictures