born in Stourbridge, West Midlands.
lives and works in East Sussex, U.K.
ART EDUCATION
1997 M.A. Fine Art, Wimbledon School of Art
1986 B.A.(Hons.) Fine Art, Brighton Polytechnic
1983 Art foundation course, Wolverhampton Polytechnic
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘Collection’ Newhaven Art Space with Rachael Adams, Christian Funnell, The Baron Gilvan, Isobel Smith and Helen Turner
2023 ‘Lift Off’ Launch exhibition at Newhaven Art Space with Helen Turner
2021 ‘Under One Roof’ Two person show, Lansdown Gallery, Lewes
2018, 2019, 2021 ‘Newhaven Open Call’ Newhaven, East Sussex
2018 ‘Under One Roof’ Two person show, Lewes House
2018 ‘Sussex Open 2018’ Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
2009 ‘Wonderland’ Paintings and work on paper with Helen Turner and Gary Goodman at The Foundry Gallery, Artemis Arts, Lewes
2002, 2000, 1999 National Print Exhibitions Mall Galleries, London
1998 Box Prints Hardware Gallery, London
1997 Art Awards KPMG, London
1997 Survey, London postgraduates Clifford Chance, London
1997 Open to Print Reg Vardy Arts Foundation, University of Sunderland
1996 ‘Journeys’ Sussex Open Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
1995 ‘Young British Abstraction’ Paintings with Marek Tobolewski and Jez Noond at Silverstein Gallery, New York
1995 ‘Handling Bach’ Paintings with Richard Granville-Smith at Greenwich Theatre Art Gallery
1992 ‘Art for Sale’ in conjunction with The Guardian at Whiteleys of Bayswater selected by Gillian Ayres
1992 South East artists open Folkestone and Maidstone Library Galleries
1992 ‘Gang of Four’ Smiths Gallery, Covent Garden
1990 ‘Work from the North Store’ Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
1986 New Contemporaries I.C.A. London and touring
WORK IN COLLECTIONS of KPMG, London and Eversheds Contemporary Art Collection, Nottingham
TEACHING & OTHER
2018 – Co-founder and organiser of Newhaven Art Projects
1997-2001 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at De Montfort University, Leicester and Lincoln
1988-1997 Teacher of Art and Design in further and secondary education
Newhaven, 2015
