I studied printmaking as the main part of my course at Chelsea Art School and soon realised that this was the medium I predominantly enjoyed.
Latterly, I've been drawn towards people at work as subject matter: the operating theatre at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and Brixton and Billingsgate markets.
I love drawing food, sitting in cafes with a sketch book and meals that I may be about to eat. I find subjects connected with fish particularly absorbing. I've drawn in smokehouses and oyster beds on Loch Fyne and have my work hung in many Loch Fyne Restaurants.
Billingsgate Market has a very exciting atmosphere and this is where all my most recent work has been done. I've also become preoccupied with a building site opposite our home and am trying to capture the scaffolders at work and the continuing change in the view.
Inevitably, many of these subjects become transposed into etchings and lithographs.
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1959-61 | Studied painting and printmaking at Chelsea School of Art |
Solo Exhibitions | |
1969 | Green & Abbott Gallery, London |
1972 | Green & Abbott Gallery, London |
1976 | Michael Parkin Gallery, London |
1981 | Maclean Gallery, London |
1984 | Maclean Gallery, London |
1987 | Michael Parkin Gallery, London |
1987 | Austin Desmond, Sunninghill: lithographs |
1989 | Michael Parkin Gallery, London |
1990 | Judd Street Gallery, London: lithographs and etchings |
1994 | Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London |
1995 | Cassian de Vere Cole Fine Art, London: lithographs and etchings |
1997 | Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London |
1998 | Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI, USA |
1999 | 'South of the River', Walcot Square Gallery, London: drawings, lithographs, etchings |
1999 | Chelsea & Westminster Hospital: drawings, lithographs, etchings |
2001 | 'Mostly Food', Franklins Restaurant, Lordship Lane, London |
2002 | 'Seafood Journeys', Peralta Pictures, London: paintings, lithographs, etchings |
2003 | 'Billingsgate Pictures', Billingsgate Seafood Training School open day |
2004 | 'Billingsgate Pictures', Billingsgate Seafood Training School open day |
2005 | 'Billingsgate Market', Abbott & Holder, Museum Street, London: paintings, lithographs, etchings |
Work as illustrator | |
'Gardening Letters to my Daughter' by Anne Scott-James | |
Food illustrations, Convivium Magazine | |
Brochure illustrations, Loch Fyne Oysters | |
Menu illustrations, Loch Fyne Oysters | |
Home delivery Christmas list 2001, Loch Fyne Oysters | |
'Going to Hospital', booklet for Chelsea & Westminster Paediatric Department | |
Public collections | |
The Wellcome Institute | |
Flemings Bank | |
The Museum of London | |
The British Council | |
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital | |
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital School | |
Royal Marsden Hospital, London | |
Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, Surrey | |
Paintings in Hospitals | The Fishmongers Hall, London |
Work in the following branches of Loch Fyne Restaurants: Cambridge, Twickenham, Barnet, Winchester, Henley, Oxford, Bath, Loughton, Brighton, Covent Garden | |
Private collections all over the world | |
Commissions | |
Loch Fyne Oyster Bar Ltd | |
Edinburgh Tapestry Company: Dovecote Studios commissioned to make a tapestry from a lithograph by Virginia Powell | |
Billingsgate Market Traders | |
Mixed exhibitions | |
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | |
The Wellcome Institute |
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