I am a UK-based painter working primarily in acrylics and other media to layer landscapes, seascapes and - currently, monolithic forms - on canvas, board and paper. If you need to slap a label on - then lyrical abstraction will cover it. I'm also embracing aspects of a vestibular disorder that I have developed over the last several years (especially the visual) in my work.
I'm also a monoprinter with a mangle and hate having my photo taken.
Work is listed in annual blocks, going backwards from 2021.
- work included in PLACE (a global art project) - hosted and originated by Dan Tirels August - continuing through 2021
- work included in Bubbles (a group show at Cross St Arts) - as part of Wigan Art Festival August 2021
- work included in their cyber-show series - Unseen, hosted by West Art Collective, Manchester March-April 2021
- work included in TAE21, Cheltenham - to generate income for the Leukemia and Intensive Therapy Fund
- work included in a series of online shows across social media, arranged by Cross Street Arts for members/associates 2021
Series 1: Hybrid, March
Series 2: Light, April/May - work included for an exhibition at STEAM, Wigan (once Covid restrictions are lifted) based on work produced for Series 2: Contact - one of a series of online shows across social media, arranged by Cross Street Arts
- work selected for Kindness, an online exhibition/project at King St Studios in Lancaster; designed to coincide with World Mental Health Day
- work selected for A Sense of Self in 7 Objects, an online exhibition/project at King St Studios in Lancaster
- work included in a series of online shows across social media, arranged by Cross Street Arts for members/associates
Series 1: Inside, March
Series 2: Contact, March/April
Series 3: Space, April/May
Series 4: Fragments, May/June - These Lancashire Women are Witches in Politics - contributed a skimmington banner-inspired piece for inclusion (along with many others) in a forthcoming show at The Turnpike, Leigh
- work selected for the Sefton Open, an open show usually hosted by The Atkinson, Southport (online because of lockdown 2020), March-June
- work included in TAE20 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
- work selected for the Manchester Open, a group show hosted and organised by Home, Manchester (December - lockdown 2020)
- work included in TAE19, Edinburgh
- work selected for Into This Last (a response to John Ruskin), a group show by Cross St Arts for Wigan Arts Festival 19 at The Old Courts, Wigan
- work included in The Secret Art Sale 19 raising funds for Colchester Cancer Centre
- work selected for Liverpool Art Fair, at The Met Quarter, Liverpool
- work included in 20 Years (a group show at Cross St Arts) for MANIFEST
- work selected for Lancashire Open, at the Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
- work included in AA artzine October 2019 issue
- work included in CSA group show Colour in Absence as part of Open Studios, Nov/December 2019
- work included in The Secret Art Sale 18 raising funds for Colchester Cancer Centre
- work included in The Amazing Art Sale for Refugees, Liverpool
- work included in TAE18, Canberra, Australia
- work selected for Intoline, a group show by Cross St Arts for Wigan Arts Festival 18 at The Old Courts, Wigan
- work auctioned as part of The Willow Foundation fundraiser, exhibited courtesy of the Crown Estate, London
- sketchbook included as part of The Sketchbook Project mobile exhibit at The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn NY
- work selected (but not exhibited) as part of Cross St Arts - The Deconstructed Cross, December
- work included in AA artzine December 2018 issue
- work selected for the inaugural Wigan Open, a group show at The Old Courts, Wigan, December
- work included in the Grejczik Gallery for 'Postcards from the Jurassic; Ammonite' show (the first open exhibition at the gallery and part of Scarborough’s Coastival Festival), January
- work included in TAE17/Molly Olly's Wishes, UK-wide group exhibition and auction
- work selected for PS Mirabel (Manchester) open exhibition 'Mono', January
- work included in a dual-venue show - 'Placement v Process', with Cross St Arts as part of WAF2 at Old Courts, Wigan and Cross St Arts Gallery, Standish, March-April
- work selected/included for Cross St Arts group show at The Atkinson, Southport July - August
- work selected for Liverpool Art Fair 2017 July - September
- work selected for Cross St Arts/Old Courts 'Nasty Women' show, August
- work included in a fundraiser at the Old LockUp Gallery in Cromford, Derby
- work included in AA artzine October 2017 issue
- small solo exhibition at The Grind on Newport Street, Bolton, Dec - Jan '18
- work included in King St Studios Affordable Art Fair in Lancaster, December
- studio open and work exhibited as part of Cross St Arts Open Studio, December
- The Sketchbook Project 2015/16 Brooklyn Art Library, Williamsburg NY, USA
- work included in TAE: NYC (2016) group exhibition and auction at Trygve Lie Gallery in NY, USA
- work selected for A6 Dialogue/Cross St Arts 'Migrate' group exhibition
- work selected for Liverpool Art Fair 2016 open exhibition
- work included in Castlefield New Art Spaces Bolton launch/Cross St Arts and New Art Spaces Leigh 'VS' group exhibition
- work included in inaugural Wigan Arts Festival (WAF) - group show with Cross St Arts
- work auctioned as part of The Willow Foundation fundraiser, exhibited at the Quadrant Arcade, Regent Street, London, November
- work selected for Cross St Arts Open Studio Associates exhibition, December
- The Sketchbook Project - submitted sketchbook
- work selected for The Pulse, group exhibition in USA
- work included in TAE Homestart:Moss, group exhibition in Norway
- work selected for Liverpool Art Fair, open exhibition in May
- work selected for inaugural exhibition at Mercer Art Gallery, Bolton
- work selected for group exhibition - The Bigger Picture
- selected as a Featured Blog on Everything Typepad
- work selected for group exhibition - The Bigger Draw
- work selected for Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival
- work included in Yellow Door Artists "The Beauty of… a Creative Space" project
- exhibiting as part of Cross Street Arts Open Studios in the gallery
- took part in Black Squares, Black Lines & Black Magic collaboration
- work selected and included as part of Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival.
- was another quiet year in terms of exhibiting; however I did have work selected and included at the Python Open at St Georges House and Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival
- proved to be a year of incubation and introspection. Having been introduced to printmaking via an excellent taster course with Neoartists led by Anita Henderson. In October 2012, I had two pieces selected and included at the LAN Open exhibition held at Oxheys Studios in Preston
- I worked on a landscape series and exhibited work from it at a second solo exhibition at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh (my first solo being held in 2010); I also had work from it selected and included in the Bolton Open. Selected to exhibit as part of Open Up North in Kendal and was included in a book - The Pulse of Mixed Media published by North Light Books
- First solo at the Turnpike Gallery Leigh; selected for Aesthetica Creative Works (now Aesthetica Arts Prize)