“I’ve always enjoyed looking and then trying to capture something that I like or that fascinates me but it wasn’t until my forties that I decided that I wanted to learn the skill of drawing from life.

In 2007 I started a classical training in drawing and oil painting. I completed diplomas that taught construction, based on the method of the Renaissance masters, at the Drawing Academy (The Animation Workshop), Denmark and sight-size, based on the classical-realist tradition of the 19th century French atelier, at the Florence Academy of Art, Italy, covering a period of nearly four years as a full-time student.

I value everything that I learnt from these two very different schools but painting is not just about technique, it goes beyond that. For me painting has become a journey of self discovery and exploration into composition which is perhaps best seen in the Selves paintings.”

In print:

• 15th issue of Artist Talk Magazine, April 2021

Exhibitions and Competitions:

• SWA 160th Annual Open Exhibition, Online 21st September - 31st December 2021

• RWA 166 Annual Open Exhibition
  Queen's Road, Bristol, 07 October - 25 November 2018

• Prilic (PRIvate and PubLIC), Hotwells Public Baths, Jacob’s Wells Road, Bristol, December 2017        

• The South West Academy Open Exhibition, Exeter Castle, September 2016,

• New Artist Fair  The Old Truman Brewery, London September 2016 

• HOURS, Solo exhibition, Bristol July 2016

• Art Competition and Exhibition 2016 at the Broadway Arts Festival, Cotswolds, June 2016