I was born in 1955, trained at Leamington College of Art then Stourbridge College where I took a  B.A. in Fine Arts. Later I  attended City University where I took an M.A. in Arts Management in Education. After 3 years of teaching art at a secondary school in the East End of London, I was appointed Head of Art at Queen Elizabeth Boys’ School in Barnet, a post I held for two years before leaving to pursue a more lucrative career in specialist decoration and mural painting. Mural painting led to fine art copies of which  I produced so many I have lost count. I received commissions from home and abroad and my work ended up in collections as far afield as the United Arab Emirates, America, Switzerland and France. The ultimate accolade was that I eventually  received  referrals from the National Portrait Gallery recommending me as a fine art copyist. This followed on from a commission I executed on-site in the gallery’s private offices. The client David Laws, a well known London Based interior designer,  commissioned a copy of the  Humphry Davy portrait which was retrieved by the National Gallery after being on loan to the Travellers Club in Piccadilly.

Painting copies helped me develop skills that were not on offer at art college, where figurative work was virtually outlawed. After several years  I stopped producing copies in order to concentrate on my own original art work.

My work now is based on work executed almost exclusively out on location, primarily in London but also abroad. I do not have years of exhibition history or society memberships but I have an increasingly steady turnover work.

EXHIBITION HISTORY

Pinto Rapido 2014

Solo Exhibition Peggy Jay Gallery. Hampstead. London 2014

Solo Exhibition Peggy Jay Gallery. Hampstead. London 2015

Pintar Rapido 2015

Chelsea Art Society Open Exhibition. Chelsea. London 2015

Solo Exhibition Peggy Jay Gallery. Hampstead. London 2016

Patchings Arts Festival 2016

Chelsea Art Society Open Exhibition. Chelsea. London 2016

Solo Exhibition Peggy Jay Gallery. Hampstead. London 2017

Solo Exhibition at the Barbican Arts Centre. Barbican. London 2017

Patchings Arts Festival 2017 (Canson Prize Winner)

Chelsea Art Society Open Exhibition. Chelsea. London 2017

Solo Exhibition Peggy Jay Gallery. Hampstead. London 2018