Education:
BA Hons degree in Fine Art, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne University, UK.
Richard Ford Award, to make copies of Velasquez paintings in The Prado, Spain.
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award for figurative painters.

Teaching Experience:
Silvermine School of Art.

Exhibitions:
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, UK (1994-2004)
The BP portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, UK (1995-1997)
Specialized in portraits of comedians, exhibiting 12 paintings of famous sitters in 2004, Riverside Studios, London, UK.
Work in collections in UK, USA, Spain, France and Abu Dhabi.

I see painting portraits as a bit like creating a short film on canvas. The painter is distilling expressions from the sitter over a space of time but these are contained in one still image. I think a portrait works best when you feel the sitter’s thoughts are unfolding in front of you, replaying moments of themselves in time.