Education: Royal College of Art; Brighton Polytechnic; Canterbury School of Art & Architecture; Cheltenham College of Art & Design; Radnorshire County Grammar School.
Career: Full-time studio practice 2009 – to present :
Previously – Professor of Visual Arts / Head of Department at Canterbury Christ Church University 2007 -09 : Deputy Head of College/Professor of Visual Education at the University for the Creative Arts 2005-2007 : Acting Head of School of Architecture, Kent Institute of Art & Design 2005: Director of Further Education, Kent Institute of Art & Design 2000-05 : Head of Foundation Studies and Director of Visual and Performing Arts, Brighton College of Technology 1991-99
Recent Exhibitions:
Solo
Hidden Ground – Vineyard Gallery, Chartham – July – August 2023
Materialise (with Su Jameson Ceramics) – Kellie Miller Gallery, Brighton – May 2021
New Work Keynes College, University of Kent – Autumn/Winter 2019/20
New Paintings – Kellie Miller Gallery, Brighton ……July 2017
Cill Rialaig Artist Residency – County Kerry, Ireland …… May 2017
Weather Report – Cafe Hay, Hay on Wye Literary Festival – Spring 2016
Hints & Incidents – Keynes College, University of Kent – Nov 2015 – Jan 2016
@15 – Harbour Street, Whitstable – Sept/Oct 2015
New Paintings – Trinity Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells – March 2014
Selected Works – Deeson Design Group Gallery, Canterbury – July/August 2012
Recent Work – Creek Creative Gallery, Faversham – Dec 2011
New Paintings – Creek Creative Gallery, Faversham – Dec 2010
Group
Mixed Show – Kellie Miller Gallery, Brighton – Summer/Autumn 2024
Storytellers – Canterbury Museum – Dec- 2023- Feb 2024
Winter Open – AKA Cambridge Contemporary – Dec 2023 -Jan 2024
Winter Open – Linden Hall Gallery – Deal
By the Waters Edge /Arborealist exhibition – Pie Factory, Margate – November 2023
Museum of Encaustic Art (MoEA) Santa Fe, New Mexico 2023
Portelli Collection, Chilston Park, Kent, July-Septemeber 2023
Mixed Show – AKA Fine Art, Cambridge February 2023
Winter Group Show – Linden Hall Gallery, Deal – Dec/Jan 2022/23
Group Show – AKA Fine Art, Cambridge Dec 2022 – Jan 23
Collaborations – Goodnestone Park – Aug-October 2022
Reclaimed – Kellie Miller Gallery, Brighton – July 2022
Group Show – Alexander Centre, Faversham – Jan-dec 2022
Sense of Place – Escape Art Centre, Tonbridge – October 2021
Royal Cambrian Academy Open Conwy, Dec 2021/Jan 2022
AIMDART – Masterpiece Gallery, Holland Park, London – Nov 2020
Map – Creek Creative Gallery, Faversham – Autumn 2020
Out of Isolation – University for the Creative Arts – September 2020
Book Art – Faversham Literary Festival, Creek Creative.. Feb 2020
Winter Group Show – Linden Hall Gallery, Deal – Dec/Jan 2019/20
Small Wonders – Kellie Miller Gallery, Brighton ……December 2019
Spring Show– Kellie Miller Gallery, Brighton ……Spring 2019
Launch – Gas House Gallery, Herne Bay – January – March 2019
Cill RialaigProject – Art 250, Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland – April 2018
Group Show – Creek Creative Gallery, Faversham – Jan/Feb 2018
Winter Group Show – Linden Hall Contemporary, Deal – Dec/Feb 2017/18
4 Painters – Collonade Gallery, Worthing …………August 2017
Just Met – Rendcomb Manor, Cirencester – July 2017
On the Edge – Herne Bay Museum – Dec 2016/Feb 2017
Winter Group Show – Linden Hall Contemporary, Deal – Dec/Feb 2017
NOA exhibition – Arundel Castle – August 2016
Summer Exhibition – Caxton Gallery, Whitstable – July/Sept 2016
National Open – Royal College of Art – October 2015
Alexander Collection – Alexander Centre, Faversham – Jan-Dec 2015
Group Show – Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable – January 2015
Mixed Show – Sarah O’Kane, Contemporary Fine Art, Lewes – December/Jan 2013/14
Hayward & Rumble – Creek Creative Gallery, Faversham – Dec 2013
Kaleidoscope – Great Bower Gallery, Molash – October/November 2013
Mixed Show – Caxton Gallery, Whitstable – August/October 2013
Hayward & Dolan – Harbour Arm Gallery, Margate – May 2013
No1 Smithery Gallery, Historic Dockyard, Chatham – Feb 2013
Works in Water Colour – Beach Gallery, Herne Bay – Dec 2012
Parallax Art Fair – Chelsea Town Hall, London – October 2012
Abode – Creek Creative Gallery – April 2012
The Thinking Line – Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury – March 2012
National Art Open – Chichester Festival Gallery – Dec 2011
Caxton Gallery Whitstable – May 2011
No 1 Smithery Gallery – Historic Dockyard, Chatham – Dec 2010
Academic – various papers on Further/Higher Education issues; served on numerous education panels; advisory work in specialist art institutions in the UK and abroad.
Artist’s statement:
My paintings are primarily concerned with the qualities of colour and surface and how these can be manipulated and ordered in ways that allude to aspects of the physical and transient nature of the world. Much of my work may appear abstract, but memories of places, objects and events will seep into decision-making and inform the direction that each work will take – references will often be about unseen physical structures (geological and archaeological) or transient atmospherics (weather and sounds).
I work mainly in encaustic, a medium that suits my rather impatient nature. Its opacity and malleability make it a forgiving medium that tolerates considerable surface change – acts of burying and excavating, cutting into and scraping away layers and nudging the component parts of a painting into visual coherence.