Artists Statement
As a self taught artist I have sought to develop a particular use of oil paint as a starting point to much of my work. While drawing on a disparate range of artistic influences I have tried to achieve a particular synthesis of material and subject. These qualities could be summed up as forceful richness of illusion and surface as well as psychological depth I work from photographs, life and imagination: All are equal as the work’s outcome is all that matters. When painting I add and subtract continuously until a satisfactory balance is achieved.
Awards
2011 Artists Award Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
2008 Elected Vice President of Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2004 Honorary Member of Hesketh Hubbard Art Society
2002 Elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
1998 Carroll Foundation Award for Portrait Painting, awarded by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Professional Experience
2011 Teaching in Umbria, Italy
2006 Tutor at The Heatherly School of Fine Art, Chelsea, London
2004 Judging of group art exhibitions including Not the Turner Prize; exhibition sponsored by the Daily Mail
2004 Regular portrait painting demonstrations
2004 BBC1 Star Portraits with Rolf Harris, sitter David Dickinson
2004 Onwards Member of the F.B.A Education Department, Mall Galleries
Education
Self taught
Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Pure Gold 50 Years of the FBA Mall Galleries London
2010 400 Women Shoreditch Town Hall London
2008/11 Royal Birmingham Society Artists
2006 onwards New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London
2005 Royal Society of British Artists Mall Galleries
2005 Star Portraits with Rolf Harris, County Hall, London
2004 Star Portraits, New Art Gallery, Walsall
2002 Nicholas Bowlby Fine Art, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
2002 onwards Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries,
1999 New English Art Club, Mall Galleries
1998, 1999 and 2000 New English Art Club, Mall Galleries
1998 RSPP/BP Award, National Portrait Galleries, London
1998/2000 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries
1997 Waterman Fine Art, Jermyn Street, London
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Ashton Reloaded, Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery, Kent
2003 Mall Galleries
2003 Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
2002 Nick Whistler Fine Art, Battle, East Sussex
2001 Intrinsic Values, Joint Exhibition with Paul James, Ramsgate Library Gallery, Kent
