I am an English coastal landscape painter, born and raised in Southwold, a small market town located on the Suffolk Heritage Coast. My family has lived in Southwold and the surrounding area for several generations and have historical family connections to local towns and villages including Dunwich and Covehithe. A long association with the sea on both sides of my family continues to influence my work and reinforces my bond with the North Sea and its coastline.
Working in mixed media, my paintings and drawings reflect my lifelong love of the East Anglian coastline and its alluring horizons. I often explore the juxtaposition of large open skies with distant buildings and objects, and have become known for my meticulous, sometimes miniature photo-real details. Having known the Suffolk landscape and its coastline all of my life, my work is a direct result of over 50 years of assimilation , observation and experience.
Since graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1995 I have exhibited my paintings in the United Kingdom including London, Cambridgeshire and Cornwall, and also at the Serena Hall Gallery in my hometown of Southwold for over 25 years. In addition to public exhibitions I have completed several major commissions for both private and commercial clients.
EDUCATION
1992 - 1995 Manchester Metropolitan University - Crewe & Alsager Faculty
Course: BA(Hons) Crafts
Pass Level: 2:1 (Visual Studies Award 1995 - 1st Prize)
1990 - 1992 Lowestoft School of Art & Design
Course: National Diploma in Art & Design
Pass Level: Distinction
EXHIBITIONS
2000-23 Serena Hall Gallery, Southwold
2023 'From Southwold to Aldeburgh', Serena Hall Aldeburgh
2014-23 VK Gallery, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire
2021 Art for Cure 'Blue Sky Exhibition'
2018 Art for Cure, Glemham Hall, Suffolk
2014 Serena Hall Gallery, Southwold – Tide by Tide
2014 Southwold Arts Festival Exhibition, Buckenham Galleries, Southwold
2013 Fowey River Gallery, Fowey, Cornwall
2010-19 Art by the Sea - Southwold, Suffolk
2008 Hicks Gallery, London - Spring Exhibition
2008 Hicks Gallery, London - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
2004 Byard Art, Cambridge - Summer Exhibition
2004 The Pin Mill Studio, Chelmondiston, Ipswich
2003 Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
2002 Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
2000-23 Summer Exhibition, Serena Hall Gallery, Southwold
1997-99 Volatile Gallery, East Street, Southwold
1997 Lena Boyle Fine Art, London - East Anglian Artists
1996-1999 Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
1995-1996 Pam Schomberg Gallery, Colchester, Essex
1995 New Designers, Islington, London
COMMISSIONS
Layton Train, London
Mazars LLP, London
Tracfurniture, London
Lesley Craze, London
Southwold Arts Festival 2014-17, programme cover
MEDIA/PUBLICATIONS
2015 BBC Radio 4 – Open Country 1/01/2015
2014 BBC Radio Suffolk 7/11/2014
2014 BBC Television – Look East 7/11/2014
2014 Southwold Arts Festival 2014-17 – programme cover
2013 Article on SuffolkCoast.co.uk, August 2013
2012 Breakthrough Breast Cancer – Summer Newsletter
Article on fundraiser through 'Sea Chronicle' project