I wanted to make a painting with people interacting . . . with individuals together in the moment . . . but with each mentally and emotionally in their own world.

Exhibited:

2016   Cumbrian Artist of the Year, Rheged, Cumbria

Exhibited: 

2021  'Chapter' - a CCA exhibition at The Fratry, Carlisle Cathedral, Cumbria

2019  'Drawn from Life' - solo exhibition at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria

2017  'Art at the Cathedral' - an exhibition of work by fifteen Cumbrian Artisrs at Carlisle Cathedral.

2015  Lake Artist's Winter Exhibition, Rheged, Cumbria

Exhibited:

2017   'Clearing'   a solo exhibition at Upfront, Cumbria

2014   ''Nature . . . and Man'   a solo exhibition at Severn Studio, Brantwood, Cumbria

'Crossing' is from an on-going series, 'Incident'. In these paintings there is the suggestion of a narrative, perhaps implying that some incident (great or small) might have occurred - people dealing with situations they find themselves in.

Private collection

Exhibited: 

2017    'Clearing'    a solo exhibition at Upfront , Cumbria

2015    'A Day in the Life'   Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria

2014    'Nature . . . and Man'    a solo exhibition at Severn Studio, Brantwood, Cumbria

Exhibited:  

2017   solo exhibition 'Clearing' at Upfront, Cumbria

2014   solo exhibition 'Nature . . . and Man',  Severn Studio, Brantwood, Cumbria

Exhibited:

2017    solo exhibition 'Clearing' at Upfront, Cumbria

Exhibited:  

2017    solo exhibition 'Clearing'  at Upfront, Cumbria

2014    solo exhibition 'Nature . . . and Man'   Severn Studio, Brantwood, Cumbria

'Yellow Pages' is intended to be light hearted and it is 'about', among other things, getting the desks in an appropriate arrangement and the green chairs and black chairs in the 'right' configuration.

Exhibited:

2017-18   New Light Art Prize, The Bowes Museum County Durham and touring

2017        'Clearing'    solo exhibition at Upfront, Cumbria

When I was at art school (Saint Martin's in London in the late 1960's) the National Gallery was just a few hundred yards down Charing Cross Road. I visited the gallery almost every day for a couple of years and steeped myself in European painting since the fourteenth century. As a consequence of this, whether I like it or not, my work is imbued with Christian iconography. With 'Father and Son', whilst not setting out to depict the narrative of the Prodigal Son, I like the thought that, at a subconscious level, that particular parable would add to the authority of the painting.

At Low Tide - made between 2013 - 2015 in response to the wonderful three Thames paintings by the late Michael Andrews.

Exhibited:

2019   'Drawn from Life' - solo exhibition at The Beacon Museum, Whitehaven, Cumbria

2017   'Clearing' - solo exhibition at Upfront, Cumbria

2015   C-Art Cumbria Artist of the Year Award and winner of The People's Choice Award, Rheged, Penrith, Cumbria 

2014    'Nature . . . and Man' - solo exhibition at  Brantwood, Cumbria