Hotel du Monde - study (ii)
Exhibited:
2024 Venice Biennale - Proseed Collective in ‘Personal Structures - Beyond Boundaries’, European Cultural Centre (Italy), Palazzo Bembo, Venice
Exhibited:
2024 Venice Biennale - Proseed Collective in ‘Personal Structures - Beyond Boundaries’, European Cultural Centre (Italy), Palazzo Bembo, Venice
Living in an isolated cottage in the middle of the huge forest at Thetford, Norfolk in 1971 was a thrilling experience. My passion for woodlands is still with me and, in recent years, trees have become central to a good deal of my painting and drawing. 'Siding' (v) depicts birch and ash regeneration in the harsh environment of abandoned railway lines. In this painting I am enjoying exploring the wonderful relentlessness of the natural world.
Exhibited:
2024 Proseed Collective’s ‘Scotland Road to Venice’ at 24 Art Gallery, Edinburgh
A reproduction of my oil painting 'Fun' (1010 x 1420 mm), made in 2020.
I hope this painting successfully carries my feelings of wonder at the lives of others - the depiction of imagined private lives with fleeting indistinct events in small simple rooms . . . all making for absorbing visual arenas.
Exhibited:
2023 -2024 New Light Art Prize touring exhibition : The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead, Bankside Gallery London, Rheged Gallery Pentith Cumbria, The Biscuit Factory Newcastle upon Tyne, The Mercer Art Gallery Harrogate
Exhibited:
2022 - 'Northern Lights' - A 10 Year Retrospective of New Light at Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
2021 - 'Through the Locking Glass' at Rheged, Penrith, Cumbria
Exhibited:
2020-21 New Light Prize Art Prize touring exhibition - Scarborough Art Gallery, The Biscuit Factory Newcastle upon Tyne, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Carlisle, Bank Side Gallery of London
Exhibited:
2021 - 'Chapter' a CCA exhibition at The Fratry, Carlisle Cathedral, Cumbria
2021 - 'Through the Locking Glass' at Rheged, Penrith, Cumbria