Solo Exhibition Thackeray Gallery
Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh
Festival Exhibition of Portraiture through the centuries
(21st Century section,invited artist)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,London
Portrait commission Scottish National Portrait Gallery:
Sir Chris Hoy, triple Olympic Gold Medalist for Cycling
AP McCoy portrait in BP Portrait Award, London
Debate on contemporary portraiture Great Western Studios,London
Solo exhibition Thackeray Gallery London
Portrait commission : Dame Judi Dench Garrick Club,London
Portrait commission:
Sir Michael Howard,Order of Merit Portrait series for HM the Queen,
The Royal Collection, Windsor
Scottish National Portrait Gallery,
invited to lecture at National Gallery Theatre, The Mound, Edinburgh
Small is beautiful, Flowers Central, London
Art London, selected works,Thackeray Gallery
BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, invited by Mick Rooney, RA
3 month project in Italy, resulting in solo exhibition
at
The Thackeray Gallery London
"Critic's Choice" selected by William Packer for Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
"Small is Beautiful" Flowers East (London)
Browse and Darby Summer Exhibition
Wales Portrait Award
The Lord's Project
Completing 6 portraits of Chelsea Pensioner Royal Hospital Chelsea
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters,The Mall London
Richmond Hill Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,London
Beaux Arts Summer Exhibition
Hunting Arts Prizes,
Royal College of Art,
Being Present: 8 Painters,
Jerwood Space (Jerwood Foundation)
London Long & Ryle
London - Bohun Gallery, Henley
Beaux Arts, Bath: joint
show with John Bellany
Richmond Hill Gallery
Beaux Arts, Cork Street, London
Bohun Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Henley
New English Arts Club, Mall Galleries, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Langham Fine Arts, Surrey
Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition,
London
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Richmond Hill Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Bohun Gallery, Henley (solo)
Narcissus: Self Portraits
of the 20th Century, SNPG
Royal Scottish Society of Watercolours, Edinburgh
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
New English Arts Club, London
Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition,
London
Mirror, Mirror: Self Portraits of Women Through The Centuries, NPG, London
BP Portrait Award, NPG, London
Visual Arts Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London
Scottish Gallery Summer Show, Edinburgh
Adam Gallery, London (solo)
RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
BP Portrait Award, NPG, London
Self Portraits, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Morrison Scottish Portrait Award, RSA, Edinburgh
Painting in Scotland, Glasgow
Printmakers Gallery
Art & Business, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Curwen Gallery, London (solo)
BP Portrait Award, NPG,
London
Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition,
London
Beaux Arts, Bath (solo)
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore
USA (solo)
Heritage Group Project, Ernst & young, Cambridge
Beaux Arts, Bath
Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh Festival Exhibition
(solo)
BP Portrait Award, NPG, London
Berkeley Square Gallery (solo)
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath (solo)
Morrison Scottish Portrait Award, RSA
Edinburgh
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Hunting Art Prizes, London|
Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath (solo)
EDUCATION
1991 Grays School of Art,
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen:
Fine Art (drawing and painting): 1st class honours
1992 Higher Diploma in Post-graduate Studies
1998-2000 Lectured part-time at Grays.
AWARDS:
1989-90 & 1990-91 Cornwall Steele Award for Painting
1991 Runner up, Morrison Scottish Portrait Award
1992 2nd Prize, Hunting Art Prizes
1998 1st Prize, Hunting Art Prizes
1999 1st Prize, Morrison Scottish Portrait Award
2000 Arts Club award, Royal Scottish Academy
2001 Regional Prize, Hunting
Art Prizes
2nd Prize, Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Award
2002
2nd Prize, Singer & Friedlander Watercolour
Award
Glasgow Arts Club Fellowship Award
2003 Kathleen Tronson Award, New English Arts Club
Judging panel: Hunting Arts Prizes (2002), Singer & Friedlander (2003, 2004)
2006 Awarded the Freedom of the Worshipful Painter Stainers' Livery Company
2007 runner up prizewinner
in this year's Kaupthing,Singer & Friedlander
Sunday Times Water colour
2008 RWS Sunday Times Award,1st prize
Worshipful Society of Painter Stainers,Runner up.
TRAVEL AWARDS/ SCHOLARSHIPS:
1990 Cite des Artes Internationale, Paris
1991 John Kinross Travel Scholarship, Florence
1999 Hogeschool, Sint Lukas, Brussels (BP Travel Award)
2000 Verrocchio Arts Centre, Tuscany (scholarship place)
2002 Chateau Balleroy, France (Prince’s Foundation)
Bursary Drawing Year placement, Prince’s Foundation, London.
TELEVISION & RADIO:
Portraiture Today BBC Radio Scotland
Mirror, Mirror Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio Four
Kirsty Wark BBC Scotland
Lecture at National Portrait Gallery, London: Mirror, Mirror (discussing ten favourite pieces).
PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS INCLUDE:
Leonard Manasseh, R.A. Architect
Viscount Weir Weir Group
Edinburgh Fund Managers
Dame Prof. Gillian Beer Retiring Principal, Clare Hall, Cambridge
Robin Jenkins Writer (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
Thelma Holt Theatre Producer (National Portrait Gallery)
Margaret Smith Lady provost, Aberdeen City Council
Paul Anderson Musician (Aberdeen Art Gallery)
Alan Caiger-Smith Ceramicist (Reading Museum)
Michael Frayn Playwright & author (National Portrait
Gallery)
Richard Smethurst Provost, Worcester College, Oxford
Dr Alison Elliott Moderator for the Church of Scotland
Standard Chartered International Bank
Mansur Ali Khan:Nawab of Pataudi commissioned by
Lord's MCC
Michael Vaughan commissioned by Lord's MCC
Dame Stephanie Shirley, Prior's Court School, Newbury
Sir Tim Berners Lee, for the Royal Society London
Dame Judi Dench for the Garrick Club London
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Royal Society
National Portrait Gallery
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Reading Museum
Singer & Friedlander London
Aberdeen Arts Gallery
Royal Scottish Academy
Robert Gordon's University
Lord's MCC Museum
The Royal Collection,Windsor Castle.
Distribution of work:
UK, USA, Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.