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1972 - 1975
Trained: Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.
1976 - 1978
Lived in Greece and established an etching workshop on the island of Syros, affiliated to The Aegean School of Art.
1980
Opened Moorland House Workshop in Somerset, running residential painting and printmaking courses until 1986.
1981
Travelled to Italy on a Bockingford International Watercolour Award.
1986
First of ten solo exhibitions at the Chris Beetles Gallery, London.
1987
Commissioned to paint in Northern Portugal. Commissioned to paint in Guernsey for the Guernsey Tourist Board.
1988
Wrote and illustrated Light, How to See it, How to Paint it published by Cassells.
1990
Tutored painting group in North Yemen for The Artist magazine.
1991
Tutored painting group in Southern India for The Artist magazine.
Became artist in residence at Shepton Mallet Prison, Somerset (until 1993).
1992
Won the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery for the portrait of prison inmates entitled Her Majesty's Pleasure.
Ran painting workshops in Dubai and travelled to Oman to paint.
Became visiting artist an the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
1993
Elected a member of the Royal West of England Academy.
Commissioned to paint Lord and Lady Longford for the National Portrait Gallery.
Illustrated Excursions in the Real World by William Trevor.
Tutored painting group in the South of France for The Artist magazine.
Organised the first regional Koestler Exhibition of Prison Art in Taunton.
1995
Tutored painting group in Zanzibar for The Artist magazine.
1996
Tutored painting group in Egypt for The Artist magazine.
Exeter Health Care Arts commissioned an oil painting for the RD&E hospital.
Travelled to Hungary to paint.
Tutored painting group in France for the Friends of the RWA.
1997
Wrote and illustrated Light in Watercolour published by HarperCollins.
Became visiting tutor at Somerset College of Arts and Technology.
Tutored painting group at the Alhambra in Spain for The Artist magazine.
1998
Travelled to Senegal, West Africa to paint.
1999
Tutored painting group in Gujarat, Western India for The Artist magazine.
2000
Travelled to India to paint people and places threatened by the damming of the Narmada River.
'Year of the Artist' Commission to work with inmates at H M Portland Young Offender Institution on murals within the prison.
Tutored painting group in Morroco for The Artist magazine.
2001
Organised a fund raising exhibition "Bhuj before the Earthquake" at the Curwen Gallery, London.
2002
Tutored painting group in Hania, Crete.
2003
BT Batsford published Travels with Watercolour.
Curated 'Tooth and Claw' animal exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
2004
Tutored painting group in Sicily for The Artist magazine
2005
Tutored painting group in China for The Artist magazine
2007
Tutored painting group in Tunisia for The Artist magazine
2008
Tutored painting group in Venice for The Artist magazine
2009
Travels with Watercolour published in paperback by Batsford Books
2010
Tutored painting group in Syria for The Artist magazine
2011
Tutored painting group in Malta and Gozo
2013
Travelled to paint in China
2015
Sunlight & Shadows in Watercolour published by Batsford
2019
Tutored a painting group in Jerusalem for The Artist magazine
1979-81
Langton Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
1982
La Borne Gallery, Cher, France - Etchings
1983
Langton Gallery ,London - Paintings and Prints
1983
Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath - Paintings and Prints
1985
Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath Garden - Watercolours
1986
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
1987
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings of Portugal
1988
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
1989
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
1990
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings of the Yemen
1991
Brewhouse Theatre,Taunton,Somerset - Paintings and Prints
1991
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings of India
1992
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings of Oman
1993
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London - Illustrations and Etchings
1994
Patchings Art Centre, Nottingham - Paintings and Prints
1994
Strode College, Street, Somerset - Prison Portraits
1994
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
1995
Milner Gallery, RWA, Bristol - Paintings and Prints
1995
University Art Gallery, Keele - Prints
1996
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
1997
County Museum, Taunton, Somerset - Paintings and Prints
1998
Hestercombe House, Somerset Garden - Watercolours
1998
Black Swan Guild Gallery, Frome - 20 Years of Printmaking
2000
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
2000
Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital - Etchings
2000
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
2001
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London - Paintings and Prints
2003
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London - Watercolours
2004
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London - Watercolours
2005
The New Gallery, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - A Sense of Place
2006
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London - From here to China.
2007
John Leach Gallery, Muchelney, Somerset - From Somerset to Shanghai
2008
Curwen and New Academy Gallery, London - Watercolours
2009
Glastonbury Rural Life Museum. - Travels with Watercolour
2010
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London - Venice and Beyond
2011
The John Leach Gallery, Somerset - From London to Aleppo
2012
Curwen & New Academy Gallery, London - Cities of Stone
2012
Somerset Art Weeks Open Studio - Paintings from the Arab World (£1300 raised in aid of the Red Cross in Syria)
2013
The Rectory Gallery, Spitalfields, London - Paintings from the last 25 Years
2014
Curwen Gallery, London - Gardens and other paintings
2016
Curwen Gallery, London - Moments in Time
2022
Piers Feetham Gallery, London - Memories of the Outside World
2022
Courthouse Gallery, Somerton,Somerset - Recent Work, June 18th- August 30th 2022

 

1985
Francis Kyle Gallery, London - Summer Exhibition
1985-2011
3D Gallery Bristol - Mixed Exhibitions
1986
Royal Academy, London - Summer Exhibition
1986-1994
Bankside Gallery, London - Royal Watercolour Society Open
1987
Barbican Art Gallery, London - Rank Xerox Print Exhibition
1987-2020
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - Annual Autumn Exhibition
1988-1994
Mall Galleries, London - Royal Society of Painter-Etchers
1992
Chris Beetles Gallery, London - Happy Families Illustrations
1992
National Portrait Gallery, London - BP Portrait Award Exhibition (1st prize)
1995
Touring Exhibition in Japan - Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery
1997 & 2000
Mall Galleries, London - Discerning Eye Exhibition (invited artist)
2000
New Academy Gallery, London - The Crown Estate in Art
2000
South West Academy, Exeter - Print Exhibition
2001
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - Academician's Exhibition
2002
New Academy Gallery, Londo - In Pursuit of the Sun
2003
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - Curated and exhibited in 'Tooth and Claw'
2004
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - Naked
2005
Medici Gallery, London - The Nude
2006
Royal West of England Academy - The Drawing Room
2007
Royal West of England Academy - Figurative Paintings by Academicians
1989-2007
Mall Galleries, London - Singer and Freidlander Watercolour Exhibition
2006-2007
Manchester Town Hall - Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Touring Exhibition
2005-2009
Sadler Street Gallery, Wells - Mixed gallery artists exhibitions
2008
Bankside Gallery, London - Kaupthing Sunday Times watercolour competition
2009
Royal West of England Academy - The Drawing Room
2010
Royal West of England Academy - Near and Far
2010
Curwen & New Academy Gallery - Hidden London
2011
Somerset Art Weeks 4 man exhibition - 'Works on paper'
2012
Secret Cinema/Secret Gallery, London - 12 drawings to accompany 'The Shawshank Redemption'
2013
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - Reigning Cats and Dogs
2014
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - Shock and Awe
2014
Mall Galleries, London - Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition
2015
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - Drawn
2021
Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton -  Spirit Level
2022
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol - This Is Me (Academicians' pivotal works)
 
 

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