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.

EXHIBITIONS:

1998

BP Portrait Award, NPG, London
Singer & Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition, London
Beaux Arts, Bath (solo)

1999

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)

2000

BP Portrait Award, NPG, London
Visual Arts Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh
Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London
Richmond Hill Gallery
Scottish Gallery Summer Show, Edinburgh
Adam Gallery, London (solo)

2001

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

2002

Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Richmond Hill Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Bohun Gallery, Henley (solo)

2003

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

2004

Beaux Arts Summer Exhibition
   Hunting Arts Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
   Richmond Hill Gallery
   Being Present: 8 Painters, Jerwood Space (Jerwood Foundation), London
   Long & Ryle, London
   Bohun Gallery, Henley

 2005 

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

2006

 Browse and Darby Summer Exhibition
 Wales Portrait Award
The Lord's Project 

2007

"Critic's Choice" selected by William Packer for Lemon Street Gallery, Truro

2007/2008
Trip to Italy
in preparation for a solo exhibition at
 The Thackeray Gallery London May 2008
. 

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

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)
Kathleen Soriano Exhibitions & Collections Management, NPG
Tuscan Energy, Aberdeen
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
Dame Stephanie Shirley, Prior's Court School, Newbury
Sir Tim Berners Lee, for the Royal Society London, work in progress

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Reading Museum, Singer & Friedlander London, Aberdeen Arts Gallery.

Distribution of work: UK, USA, Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain.

Lord's MCC Museum