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:
2025 1st New Light Summer Exhibition of the North Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Leeds
Private collection
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:
2019 Lake Artists Society Summer Exhibition, Grasmere, Cumbria
Exhibited:
2019 Lake Artists Summer Exhibition - Grasmere, Cumbria
In 2019 when this painting was exhibited at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven there were nine figures depicted in the street. In 2021 I painted out two of them - a man carrying a baby, but added a new eighth figure - a woman photographer. In June 2023 I set-to on the painting again and took out that woman but also six of the remaining 7 figures - leaving only the elderly lady . . and a much quieter street!
Exhibited:
2023 Lake Artists Summer Exhibition, Grasmere, Cumbria
2019 'Drawn from Life' - a solo exhibition at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria
Private collection
Exhibited:
2018 Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
Exhibited:
2019 'Drawn from Life' - Solo exhibition at The Beacon Museum and Art Gallery, Whitehaven, Cumbria