Biog
I trained initially as an actor in 1970 and pursued that path for several years. Since then I have painted display mannequins, restored pictures for a London gallery, and spent several years as interior muralist before moving to East Anglia around the millenium motivated by a love of landscape painting 'en plein air'. Ironically since Norfolk I have reverted to painting figures and still lifes in the studio.
In 2012 after moving to my present 'ruin' in deepest France I developed an interest in exploring life's contrasts such as those between monochrome and colour, the real and the illusory etc. Partly informed by retinal observation and partly conceptual employing incongruity, humour and sometimes inanimate objects as stand-ins to highlight aspects of human behaviour and emotions, I aim to create works which aspire to elicit a stilling hiatus or a smile of recognition in the daily grind of human existence.
Past Exhibitions
From 1983 onwards
UK
Solo Exhibitions
1989/90 Studio Gallery, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
1997 Uxbridge Library
1998 Saffron Walden Library
2000/02 Diss Corn Hall Gallery
2002 Maddermarket Theatre Gallery, Norwich
2007/8/9
Norfolk Open Studios
2008 Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk
2009 Digby Gallery, Mercury Theatre, Colchester
2009/10 Waveney Springs Open Studios, Norfolk
2017 Cork Brick Gallery, Bungay **
Mixed Exhibitions
1998 Chelsea Art Society Annual Exhibition, London
1999 Churzee Studio Gallery, Wandsworth, London
2007 Horace Blue Gallery, Norwich
2008 Cork Brick Gallery, Bungay
2007/8 The Chimney Mill Gallery, West Stow, Suffolk
2011 Harleston Gallery, Suffolk
2010 Corke Gallery, Liverpool **
France
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Café Gallery, Le Grande Bourg
2016 Boutique Bis, La Souterraine
2012/14/15/17/21 Galerie Sans Titre, Rancon
** galleries currently holding a stock of my work