Born in Exeter Devon, he went to Bromley College of Art and then the Slade School of Art (1964). After a period in Reading he moved to Epsom School of Art and from there to Cornwall in 1974. He now lives in the Haute Garonne in the foothills of the French Pyrenees.

 

His works can be found in many public and private collections, including the British Arts Council, the British Museum, Newlyn Art Gallery, Reading University Arts Collection and he has held numerous one man and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally:

 

The Whitechapel Art Gallery 1974

Newlyn Art Gallery 1977

Royal Institute of Cornwall Truro 1983

Galerie Leisten und Thiesen, Munster, Germany 1985

Art Space Gallery, London 1989-2007.

Retrospective, Art Space Gallery, London 1996 and Royal West of England Academy Bristol 1996

kilkenny Arts Week, Kilkenny Castle Ireland, (invited artist) 1997

Aspet s'Expose (invité d'honneur), Aspet, Haute Paintings Garonne, France 2009

Young Contemporaries 1964

British Painting '74, Hayward Gallery London 1974

Newlyn Society at Pont Aven, Brittany, France 1978

Summer Show I, Serpentine Gallery London 1982

Cleveland International Drawing Biennale 1983

Dortmund Art Fair, Germany 1984

Royal Society of British Artists (invited artist), Mall Galleries, London 1985

Twentieth Century British Artists and the Sea, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle 1986

Salute to Turner, Agnew's, London 1989

The Reading Years, Reading Museum, Reading, UK 2016

Jean Marmignon Theatre Gallery, St Gaudens, France 2014

 

Bibliography

Buckman David, (2006), Artists in Britain since 1945, Vol 2, Art Dictionaries Ltd,