About me
The style or approach to painting that I use is one based on a sense of design that was confirmed for me by two formative years spent in Italy after graduating from Art College in the 1970s. At the same time a sensuous enjoyment of colour is important to me, stemming as it does I think from a childhood spent partly in the tropics when my family lived in Africa. Cornwall has brought together these personal tastes of mine through its landscape, culture and over-arching quality of maritime light.
- Born in Yorkshire my early education was in Huddersfield. I gained an honours degree in Fine Art at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University and on graduating in 1971 was awarded a Bunzl travel scholarship to study in Italy. I returned to the U.K. in 1973 and lived for seven years in Bath, training as a teacher at Bristol University.
- I taught Art in Bath, London and Cornwall from 1976 to 1999 and was head of Art at Mounts Bay School, Penzance from 1982 to 1999.
- I was elected to membership of the National Acrylic Painters Association in January 2007.
- I've been a practicing Buddhist since 1983 ( see www.sgi-uk.org ).
Solo exhibitions:
- (1972) in Florence (Palazzo Strozzi) and at Newcastle-upon Tyne University.
- (1974) at Bristol Art Centre, (1975) at Bath Art Centre, (1976) at Plymouth Art Centre.
- (1983 & 1985) at Penzance Art Centre (now the Acorn).
- (2001, 2003 & April 2006) at the Mariner's Gallery in St. Ives.
- (May 2006) at Bodmin Shire Hall
A wide range of my work can be seen at The Turn of the Tide Studio in St. Just-in-Penwith in West Cornwall which I share with fellow painter / printmaker Gabrielle Hawkes.
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