Born: 1952 England United Kingdom

Art practice: Later period Abstract paintings and drawings which develop from his earlier periods, combining ideas about the sublime found in traditional English Romantic Art and re-imagined in some Modern American abstract art. Collectively, from the 1960s onwards, his artworks include both abstract and figurative paintings, photocolleges, multiple short art movies, and some early sculpture.  

Periods: Modern and Contemporary Art 1960s-2020s. 

Education:

- Royal College of Art London 1998-2001 - MPhil RCA advanced research degree - included Research Methodologies course, dissertation and Final Show - supervising tutor was Professor James Park of the Royal College of Art.

- Royal College of Art London 1997-98 - PEP Postl Experience Programme.

- London University Institute of Education 1987-88 - PGCE Art & Design - included teaching practice at the Slade School of Fine Art, following application and interview, supervised by Slade tutor Ron Bowen.

- Newcastle University 1978-80 - MFA Painting - dissertation on Matthias Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece - personal tutor was Professor Kenneth Rowntree.

- Loughborough College of Art & Design 1971-74 - DipAD Fine Art - major in Painting supported by Printmaking, with course in History of Art 1960s-Present and dissertation on American Abstract Expressionism - tutors included the Royal Academy of Art painter Doug Kemp.

- Mansfield College of Art 1969-71 - Foundation Art Course - curriculum reflected Bauhaus interdisciplinary principles - tutors included the Welsh painter Philip Muirden of the Royal Academy of Art.

Artworks: Series & periods 1960s-2020s, include Temple Painting, American Storm, Chernobyl, The Island, Miracle, landscapes made in Canada and the UK, American road paintings, American photographs and  photocollages, 'Swirl' art movie from numerous others, plus earlier wooden 'Heads' series of sculptures from among others.

Art-related travel: 10,000 mile road trip through nine states in Western America from California to New Mexico, crossing the Alberta Prairies to paint huge canvases in the Rocky Mountains, and a road trip through France from Dunkirk via Paris and south to the French Riviera.

Exhibitions include:

1965 - 1st Prize Winner in a national junior painting competition, exhibited at the Tate Gallery London, Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery, and Glasgow Museum & Art Gallery - the latter as I was told at the time and remember from sixty years ago, though the name of the Glasgow gallery may have been either Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum or Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art.  

1970 - Mansfield College of Art.

1974 - graduation exhibition at Loughborough College of Art & Design. 

1979 - at the nationally prestigious Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. 

1979-80 - three exhibitions at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

1979-80 - two exhibitions at the Below Stairs Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne - includes one solo exhibition.    

1987 - Dryden Street Art Gallery, London - solo exhibition.

1988 - represented Great Britain at the 8th International Ex-Libris Printmaking Exhibition, in Urawa City, Japan.

1988 - Bloomsbury Art Gallery, London University.

1994 - Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries London.

1995 - Royal Institute of Oil Panters, Mall Galleries London.

1996 - National Open Printmaking Exhibition, Mall Galleries London.

1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 - collectively, eleven site-specific solo exhibitions of large scale landscape paintings made in the UK New Forest, the south coast of Dorset, Devon and Cornwall sea and shore, and the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

1997 - David Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art London - solo exhibition.

1999 - Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art London.

1998-2001 - four exhibitions at the Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art London, including my MPhil Final Show graduation exhibition in 2001.​​​​

Developments 2001-2020s: Paintings and photographic artworks - includes those inspired by travel in the USA.
 

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