Notable commissions and exhibitions


2019

Selected for the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, Piano Nobile Gallery
Portrait Commission - Lord Macdonald, Warden, Wadham College, Oxford University

Portrait Commission - Catherine Hughes, Principal1986 - 1996, Somerville College, Oxford University Solo exhibition at Catto Gallery, London

2018

Portrait of Ken Loach (BP Portrait Award) on display in the Victoria Gallery, Bath form Oct 2018 to Jan 2019

May 23rd - June 9th - Solo exhibition 'In Flux' at Thomson's Gallery, Marylebone, London

January - December - Artist in Residence at Elisabeth Frink's studio Woolland, in Dorset. The work will be exhibited in the Victoria Gallery Bath and Beaux Arts Gallery Bath from September to November 2019.

June - September - Minerva Owl sculpture trail. Cornucopi-owl, commissioned by The Ivy Brasserie to be exhibited outside The Ivy Brasserie in Bath on Milsom Street.

January - commission to paint Robert Swannell for Marks and Spencer

2017

A second portrait of Ken Loach selected for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery. On show at the NPG till September 2017 then touring to Royal Albert Museum, Exeter 4/10/17 - 3/12/17, SNPG, Edinburgh 12/18 - 03/18 and Winter Gardens, Sunderland 03/18 - 06/18

February - Catto Gallery, Hampstead, London, solo show; 'A Flicker in the Continuum'

Commissioned by Oxford University to paint Ken Loach for the Vice Chancellor's Diversity in Portraiture project, The painting will be shown in the Bodleian Library before being hung in Examination Halls

Member of the Vice Chancellor of the Oxford University Equality and Diversity Group

2016

Winner: The Open Award; The Royal West of England Academy

Bath Society of Artists 'Drawing, Technique and Purpose' - The Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Society

Finalist - Beep International Painting Competition, The Halcyon Gallery

Finalist: Black Swan Open, sponsored by Hauser and Wirth

September - Frieze London - House of Nobleman

Thompson's Gallery , New Cavendish St, London

Wychwood Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold

The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle solo show; 'Hypnos'

2015

Royal College of Art, Artist in Residence

Commissioned by Somerville College, Oxford University to paint the Principal Dr Alice Prochaska

Thompson's Gallery, New Cavendish Street, London W1

Junction Gallery, Woodstock - 'Interiors'

'Green Shoots' Darren Baker Gallery, Charlotte St. London

2014

Viscountess Rosie Grimston

ING Discerning Eye exhibition, Mall Galleries

BP Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery, London. Second prize for 'Portrait of Jean Woods'

BP Portrait Award. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

BP Portrait Award. National Museum, Cardiff.

BP Portrait Award. Sunderland Museum and Winter Grardens.

'Secret Lives' - Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath

'Transient Bodies' - View Gallery, Bristol

The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle

20/21, Royal College of Art

2013

'Momentum' View Gallery, Bristol

Bath Society of Artists’ Summer Show

The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle

20/21 Royal College of Art

2012

Bath Society of Artists’ Summer Show. Winner: The Victoria Prize

'All That We Are' Bath Contemporary Gallery, Bath

'Hidden Portraits' View Gallery Bristol

2011

'Form and Colour' – Paintworks Gallery, Bristol