awards

Holburne Portrait Prize (winner).
Artist of the year (shortlisted) - Artists and Illustrators Magazine.
Best painting award - Royal West of England Academy of art (RWA).
BFA Painting Award.
Peoples Choice Award (Victoria Art Gallery).
Works on paper award (Victoria Art Gallery).
Excellence in Watercolour (two years running) (RWA).

About

I was born on the third of December 1971, Bristol ,England. I have been painting and drawing all of my life and began taking commissions and exhibiting my work at the age of eleven. Upon leaving school I became a professional musician while continuing to paint in my spare time and attending evening classes in painting and life drawing.
During 1994 I returned to The City of Bath College and Chichester University (UCC) to study art and music. I became a professional illustrator for a couple of years before concentrating full-time on portrait commissions and my own work. My portrait paintings have won many awards and have been exhibited in many prestigious exhibitions.

Influences

Rembrandt
Freud
Spencer
Wood
Hockney
Blake
DIX

Contact Me

Portrait paintings are expensive. I will not work from your photographs unless the sitter is no longer with us. I will always require some creative control. Paintings may take a long time to complete (up to 1 year).

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Notable Exhibitions

BP Portrait Award 2007 & 2004
The Hunting Art Prizes 2005
The Holburne Portrait Prize 2006 (winner)
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2005 to date
Sunday Times Watercolour Awards 2004 - 2008

Notable Commissions

Mehmet Omar Koc
Peter Lord CBE
Nick Park CBE
David Sproxton CBE
Sir Simon Bowes-Lyon
Lady Caroline Bowes-Lyon

Exhibitions

2004 & 2007
BP Portrait Award,
The National Portrait Gallery, London.

1999 - 2009
Autumn Exhibition,
The Royal West of England Academy of Art, Bristol.

2005 - 2012 (except 2008)
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters,
The Mall Galleries, London.

2004 - 2011
Bath Society of artists,
Victoria MAG, Bath.

2011
Artist of the year (shortlisted),
Artist and Illustrators, Magazine.

2010
The Big Draw Self-Portrait Drawing,
Chapel Row Gallery, Bath.

Cork Street Open,
Cork Street, London.

The Royal Society of British Artists,
The Mall Galleries, London.

2009
Pop Portrait Perfect,
The Big Draw, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.

2005 & 2008
Mystery Portrait Postcards,
The National Portrait Gallery, London.

2008
Solo exhibition 'Painting Aardman',
The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath.

2005 - 2008
SF - Sunday Times Watercolour Award,
The Mall Galleries, London.

2006
The Holburne Portrait Prize (winner),
The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath.

2005
Hunting Art Prizes,
The Royal College of Art, London.

2004
Solo exhibition 'Expressions',
CenterSpace, Bristol.