Exhibitions
Since becoming an associate member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1996, I have exhibited regularly in their Annual Spring and Autumn Exhibitions. I was elected a member of the Small Paintings Group in 2019, and exhibit frequently with them at various galleries in London and throughout Britain.
I’m currently exhibiting four new pieces of work in the Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition from 29 March – 28 April. This year's theme is 'Transparency'. Find out more via Bankside Gallery or explore more of my recent work.
Six of my small watercolour paintings of gardens will also be showing at an exhibition with The Small Paintings Group at Mandell’s Gallery in Norwich from 20 April – 18 May.
Earlier this year, four of my paintings featured in The Mini Picture Show. This included contemporary watercolours and original prints from the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers.
reflections on recent work
In 2019 Bankside Gallery invited me to take part in an exhibition of work by members of the Royal Water Colour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, celebrating a year in the life of the Chelsea Physic Garden.
Then the Covid pandemic happened.
As soon as the Physic Garden were able to open again, limited numbers of visitors were allowed in, which was such a treat for us artists. There was a great deal of work for the gardeners to do, as the garden had been maintained by a skeleton staff during the pandemic and was a little wild by then.
I loved the wildness and it became my place of solace. I spent many happy hours painting quietly away there.
“A Year in the life of the Chelsea Physic Garden” took place at Bankside Gallery in June 2021.
The Chelsea Physic Garden was celebrating 350 years of its existence in 2023, so another exhibition was conceived, and some of the same artists were invited to take part in.
I found many changes had taken place with previously painted trees pruned and walkways opened. There was much fresh material to paint.
“350 years of the Chelsea Physic Garden” took place in June 2023 and The Chelsea Physic Garden acquired my painting of The Rambler for their collection. Explore more of my recent work.
“Being close to nature, watching plants grow and having a project to work on, was important to me during the pandemic.”
Recent exhibitions
2023 Home, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 Small Paintings Group, Geedon Gallery, Fingringhoe
2023 Chelsea Physic Garden; Celebrating 350 years in Paint and Print, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 Summer at Bankside Gallery 2023, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 Risk, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 Mini Picture Show 2023, Bankside Gallery, London
2023 Winter Exhibition with the Small Paintings Group, Panter and Hall Gallery, Pall Mall, London
2022 Reflections, Bankside Gallery, London
2022 Fundraiser in Aid of Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal, online with Bankside Gallery, London
2022 Less is More, Bankside Gallery, London
2022 Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London
2021-2022 Winter Exhibition with the Small Paintings Group, Piers Feetham Gallery, London
2021 Spring Mini Picture Show Online, Bankside Gallery, London
2021 They Can’t Cancel Spring, Bankside Gallery, London
2021 Chelsea Physic Garden; A Year in the Life, Bankside Gallery, London
2021 Summer Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2021 September Showcase, Bankside Gallery, London
2021 Now and Then, Bankside Gallery, London
2021 Winter Exhibition with The Small Paintings Group, Jerram Gallery, Sherborne
2021 Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London
“Watercolour has been a medium that has always been treasured for its transparency.”
previous exhibitions
2020 Art during Coronavirus, Bankside Gallery, London
2020 Summer Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
2020 Visions 2020, Bankside Gallery, London
2020 Small Paintings Group, In Lockdown, online exhibition
2020 Small Paintings Group Spring , Geedon Gallery, Fingringhoe
2019-2020 Small Paintings Group, Piers Feetham Gallery, London
2019 Spotlight, Bankside Gallery, London
2018-19 Small Paintings Group, Piers Feetham Gallery, London
2018 The Colour of Water, Bankside Gallery, London
2018 Off the Wall, Bankside Gallery, London
2018 Small Paintings Group, Wimbledon Fine Art, Wimbledon
2018 What the Light was Like, Chapel Gallery, Bromyard
2018 Spring Equinox, RWS Group Exhibition, Felix and Spear Gallery
2017 Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2017 Watercolour Biennial, Qingdao Art Museum, China
2016 Celebrating Shakespeare, Bankside Gallery
2014 Cultivation and Creativity, Bankside Gallery
“I like to know a place really well. I always try to bring some of the atmosphere of the place into the paintings.”
Solo Shows
1993 Francis Kyle Gallery
1982 Francis Kyle Gallery
1979 Francis Kyle Gallery
Group Shows
Francis Kyle Gallery
2006 Everyone sang, a celebration of the work of Siegfried Sassoon
2005 The Lair of the Leopard
2003 Roma
2001 Marcel Proust: Art and Memory (National Theatre)
2000 Marcel Proust; Art and Memory
1997 Saxon Shore
1995 Una selva oscura, artists take to the forest
1992 La Route Napoleon
1989 Blue and White
1988 Below Paradise
1987 Venezia Encore (Dover Street Arts Club)
1985 Tuscan Summer
1984 Wharfedale, a landscape revisited (exhibited at Bolton Abbey and New York)
1984 Featured artist in Omnibus programme for BBC
1983 Hide and Seek
1982 Lutyens, an appreciation
“I work purely in water colour, sometimes I draw with a pencil, but usually I prefer to go straight in with the brush.”
Other Group Shows
2011 A Year in the Life of the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Bankside Gallery
2008 The Poet and the Painter, Bankside Gallery
2007 A Leaf from my Sketchbook, Bankside Gallery
2006 Artists’ Kew, Messum’s and Kew Gardens Gallery
2005 The Artist and Radio 4, Bankside Gallery
2005 Singer Friedlander, Mall Galleries, invited artist
2004 Dulwich Picture Gallery Charity Auction, Christies
2004 Then and Now, Bankside Gallery and the Royal Cambrian Gallery, Conway
2003 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
2002 Spring Exhibition, Century Gallery, Datchet
2002 Watercolour and Drawings Fair, Park Lane Hotel
2001 Watercolour and Drawings Fair, Park Lane Hotel
2001 Singer Friedlander, Mall Galleries
2001 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries
2000 London Lives, Bankside Gallery, London
1999 Men on Women, Women on Men, Bankside Gallery, London
1999 Light Fantastic, Bankside Gallery, London
1997 The Art of the Garden; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Thompsons Gallery, Aldburgh and Bankside Gallery, London