"My art is strongly rooted by a lifelong connection with the Severn, Britain's longest river, experiencing it for the first time aged four in the city of Worcester where I was born and raised.
This early fascination grew over time and drove me to becoming a completely self-taught painter, obsessed with expressing the emotional ties which bind me to my subject.
Although watercolour has been the cornerstone of my work for many years, I have not let a particular technique restrict my progress as a painter; daily sketching has honed mark making and experimentation with a variety of media has allowed unhindered development of my approach to landscape painting. As a consequence ideas shift between realism and abstraction and depend on whether the river is immediate or recollected.
My most recent work reflects an approach less reliant upon depicting a place but more about a gut-felt reaction as a result of being in that place; that intangible and profound feeling which rests in the soul".
2021 - President of the Birmingham Watercolour Society.
2009 - Elected member of the Birmingham Watercolour Society.
No art qualifications or formal training. Completely self-taught.
2022
Birmingham Watercolour Artists, Summer Exhibition - Himley Hall, Staffordshire.
2021
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Autumn Exhibition – Selly Manor, Bournville, Birmingham
2020
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Autumn Exhibition – Weston Park, Staffordshire
2019
Solo Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Spring Exhibition – Weston Park, Staffordshire
Spring Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
Summer Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
Autumn Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
2018
Solo Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
Spring Exhibition - Ironbridge Fine Arts
Summer Exhibition - Ironbridge Fine Arts
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
2017
Spring Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
Spring Exhibition – Tinca Gallery, Portishead
Spring Exhibition – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
Summer Exhibition – Tinca Gallery, Portishead
Autumn Exhibition – Tinca Gallery, Portishead
Autumn Exhibition – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
2016
Spring Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
Spring Exhibition – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
Spring Exhibition – Tinca Gallery, Portishead
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
Autumn Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
Autumn Exhibition – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
Autumn Exhibition – Tinca Gallery, Portishead
2015
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
Autumn Exhibition – Ironbridge Fine Arts
Autumn Exhibition – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
Autumn Exhibition – Tinca Gallery, Portishead
2014
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
2013
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
2012
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
2011
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
2010
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
Birmingham Easel Club – Annual Exhibition
Joint Show – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
2009
Open Exhibition – Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
Birmingham Watercolour Society, Summer Exhibition – Hanbury Hall, Worcestershire
Birmingham Easel Club – Annual Exhibition
Joint Show – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
2008
Open Exhibition – Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
Solo Exhibition – Worcester Cathedral
Joint Show – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
2007
Open Exhibition – Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
Solo Exhibition – Worcester Cathedral
Joint Show – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
2006
Joint Shows – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
2005
Solo Exhibition – Bevere Gallery Worcester
Solo Exhibition – Worcester Cathedral
Joint Exhibition – Bevere Gallery
2004
Solo Exhibition – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
2003
Joint Shows – Bevere Gallery, Worcester
Joint Show – Hereford Cathedral
2002
Joint Show – Bevere Gallery, Worcester