Personal Statement
" My paintings are based on everyday objects. I work from life, in front of the form, and close observation is central to my practice. The objects I paint are everyday things, often organic forms from the garden or allotment. The space around the subject, the space in the painting itself, becomes a sort of stage, and the painting develops through the rigorous finding of the spatial relationships and forms across the picture.
The experience of being involved with the close observation of the subject over a period of time, gives the objects a weight and character of their own. The concentrated focus on looking becomes a meditation on space, colour, form and line giving particular significance to the object."
Education
1978-81 Fine Art Degree
Camberwell School of Art
London
1977 Byam Shaw School of Art
London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
Objective Beauty
2022 Tregony Gallery, Cornwall
2021 Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford.
Drawing with Colour
20-21 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2019 Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford.
From Where I Stand.
Jerram Gallery, Dorset,
with Malcolm Ashman RBA
2011- Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2009 Het Cleyne Huys, Den Haag,
Holland
with Michiel Schrijver
1994-05 Solomon Gallery
Dublin
1993-96 Cadogan Contemporary
London
1992-19 New Ashgate Gallery
Farnham
1988-90 Austin Desmond Fine Art
Sunninghill
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Assemble 23, Tregony Gallery
London
2022 Assemble 22,
Tregony Gallery
London
Jerram Gallery
Dorset
2021 Assemble 21
Tregony Gallery
SPG Annual Exhibition
Piers Feetham Gallery,
London
Tregony Gallery
Cornwall
Jerram Gallery
Dorset
Josie Eastwood
Hants
2020 Assemble 20
Tregony Gallery
London
Best of British,
The Gallery
Holt, Norfolk
SPG Annual Exhibition,
Piers Feetham Gallery
London
2019 Assemble, Tregony Gallery,
London
Contemporary Artists
Belgrave St Ives
Cornwall
Promenade
Tregony Gallery,
Cornwall
Observations,
Highgate Contemporary Art
London
Josie Eastwood Fine Art
Hampshire
2018 Garden Exhibition
Sarah Wiseman Gallery
Oxford
2015-18 Tregony Gallery, Cornwall
Belgrave St ives, Cornwall
Eastwood Fine Art, Hants
Jerram Gallery, Dorset
Sarah Wiseman Gallery
Oxford
2015 40 Years of Painting,
Camberwell
Students and Teachers
St Ives, Cornwall
2014 Still life Exhibition,
Jerram Gallery, Dorset
2011 Painters and Potters
New Ashgate Gallery
Farnham
2010 Still-life and Landscape
Seascape Gallery, Surrey
Selected Open Exhibitions
2023 RBA, Mall Galleries, London
NEAC, Mall Galleries, London
2022 RBA, Mall Galleries, London
ROI, Mall Galleries, London
NEAC, Mall Galleries, London
2021 RBA, Mall Galleries, London
ROI, Mall Galleries, London
2020 RBA, Mall Galleries, London
ROI, Mall Galleries, London
2019 RBA, Mall Galleries, London
NEAC, Mall Galleries, London
2015-18 RBA Mall Galleries
ROI Mall Galleries
NEAC Mall Galleries
2015/10 Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries
2012/97 Jerwood Drawing
Competition
2008/9 Art for Youth, Oxford
1998 Artist and Model
Bishops Palace,
Chichester
Collections
Contemporary Art Collection
AIB, Dublin
Many private collections UK and abroad
Awards
2023 Frinton Frames Award Winner at the RBA Exhibition
2022 Elected as a full member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
2021 Elected as an associate member of the
Royal Institute of Oil Painters
2020 Elected as a member of the
Small Paintings Group
2019 Elected as a member of
Royal Society of British Artists
2019 Gordon Hulson Memorial
Award
RBA Exhibition
1986 Winner
W&N Young Artist Award
ROI Exhibition
1985 Finalist
W&N Young Artists Award
ROI Exhibition
1981 3rd prize
Magnolia National Landscape
Competition
Publications
2018 October: The Artist Magazine
2017 September: Artist and Illustrator
2016 You Tube: Interview
A Closer Look
2015 January: Discover Art
2010 December:Artist and Illustrator
2010 November: Saturday Times
Dictionary of British Art
20thCentury Painters and Sculptors
Teaching and Workshops
2024 Colour and Light in Oil Painting:
looking at the work of Pierre Bonnard
Online course with Winslow Art Center
2023 Morandi, the master of stillness
with artdrawpaint.com, hampshire
Form through Colour
online course with Winslow Art Center
2022 The Presence of Flowers
An online oil painting workshop
with Winslow art Center
Painting Flowers with Oil Paint
Hampshire Art Studio
Sunningwell School of Art
2021 Colour and Form in Oil painting
online course with
Winslow Art Center
Bainbridge Island
Washington, USA
2019 A Closer Look at Colour
Hampshire Art Studio
2019 Art Unbound
Painswick Rococco Gardens
2018 On Form Exhibition Workshop
Week long workshop,
En Olivier, France
2014 onwards
teaching
Sunningwell School of Art
2012-15 Demonstrator
Art in Action
Waterperry, Oxon
2012-15 Workshops
Art in Action
Waterperry, Oxon