About The Artist

After completing my BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design and Illustration at Norwich School of Art, Norfolk, I gained my Post Graduate Diploma in Painting at the Royal Academy School of Art, London.

During my third year at the Royal Academy I had the privilege of studying under Cliff Holden, a student of David Bomberg and President of the Borough Group.

Presently, I am a Commissioning Portrait Painter and Old Master Copyist, working in Windsor, Berkshire. As part of my work, I also study and copy paintings at the National Gallery, London, where I collate information to help me with private commissions of Old Master copies and portraits.

I have exhibited work in various exhibitions, including the Sunday Times Water Colour Exhibition, the Cable & Wireless Exhibition and the Royal Academy Summer Show, amongst others. I have exhibited a one man show of portraits at Beningbrough Hall in York, and a one man exhibition of landscapes at the Cromwell Hospital and the Windsor Arts Centre. I have also exhibited in the BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

I have won a number of awards and prizes for my art, including the Vincent Harris Prize for Mural Painting and the Arthur Hacker Prize for Portraiture in 1994/95. I have also received the Bayer Earth Art Prize for painting at the Mall Galleries, London, The Cromwell Hospital Award, London and the Band and Dooley Prize for Anatomical Drawing.