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Awards
2000 - David & Charles Award @ "The Artist" magazine
annual Exhibition and Competition - Patchings, Nottingham
1999 - Best in Show Award (as voted by visiting public) Beecroft
Gallery, Westcliff on Sea Annual Essex Open Exhibition and Competition
Exhibitions
1999
Essex Wildlife
Art Exhibition
Essex Open Art Exhibition, Beecroft Gallery, Westcliff-on-Sea -
1 work selected
St.Giles, Mountnessing Art & Craft Festival, Mountnessing, Essex
Billericay Rotary Arts Exhibition
Moulsham Street Gallery, Chelmsford, Essex
2000
Brentwood, Billericay & Basildon Soropotomists Art Exhibition
Writtle Art Group Annual Exhibition, Writtle, Essex
Essex Wildlife Art Exhibition, Thorndon, Essex
Braintree Open Art Exhibition - 2 works selected
Patchings (Nottingham) 2000 Annual Open Competition & Exhibition
- sponsored by "The Artist" and
"The Leisure Painter" art magazines - 1 work selected.
Essex Red Cross Exhibition, Chelmsford
2001
Brentwood, Billericay & Basildon Soropotomists Art Exhibition
Patchings (Nottingham) 2001 Annual Open Competition & Exhibition
- sponsored by "The Artist" and
"The Leisure Painter" art magazines. - 1 work selected
Essex Open Art Exhibition - Beecroft Gallery, Westcliff on Sea.
One painting selected
Essex Wildlife Art Exhibition, Thorndon, Essex
St.Giles, Mountnessing Art & Craft Festival, Mountnessing, Essex
Billericay Rotary Arts Exhibition, Billericay, Essex
Essex Red Cross Exhibition, Chelmsford
The Becket Gallery - Brentwood Art Society Annual Exhibition Brentwood,
Essex
Stock Brook Country Club - Christmas Art & Craft Fair, Billericay,
Essex
2002
Moulsham Street Gallery, Chelmsford, Essex
Jubilee Art Exhibition, St. Thomas of Canterbury, Brentwood, Essex
Essex Wildlife Art Exhibition, Thorndon, Essex
Billericay Rotary Arts Exhibition, Billericay, Essex
Patchings (Nottingham) 2002 Annual Open Competition & Exhibition
- sponsored by "The Artist" an
d "The Leisure Painter" art magazines. - 1 work selected,
1 work highly commended
Rickling Hall, Saffron Waldon, Essex Art Exhibition
"Showing Off - Essex Artists" - Cressing Temple Barns
Art Fair, Essex
Essex Red Cross Exhibition, Chelmsford
Oak House Gallery, Maldon, Essex - Pastel Exhibition
Doddinghurst Art Society Open Exhibition- Blackmore, Essex
The Becket Gallery, - Brentwood Art Society Annual Exhibition Brentwood,
Essex
Stock Brook Country Club - Christmas Art & Craft Fair, Billericay,
Essex
Artist's
Statement
"Having obtained a Fine Art 'A' level back in 1970 I was encouraged
by work colleagues to persevere with my flagging oil paintings and
pencil drawings. However, it was not until 1996, that through an
evening class things really began for me when, by a stroke of luck,
I discovered pastel.
Pastels
lit a fire in me I had never experienced. There was a real urgency
and vitality in my painting and those pastels released an energy
I did not know I had. Since then, my early retirement and the building
of my studio in Hutton have enabled my art career to develop- without
hindrance!
Landscapes
and townscapes have since become my forte. I have entered local
and national competitions and exhibitions with some success. My
art materials travel with me everywhere, Tuscany now a favourite.
I enjoy capturing local scenes, and work "en plein air"
whenever I can.
In the
studio I tend to favour soft pastels in my initial build up of a
picture, wetting the first sketch and moving the pigment around
like watercolour. This process can be repeated a number of times
and it is amazing the effects one can get, especially if done on
really good quality water-colour paper i.e.600gm weight plus. The
process of mixing colour in-situ never ceases to amaze me and the
scrumbling of pastel leaves such texture. All combine to make for
a more impressionistic approach, which I continually strive to develop.
I am currently researching abstract work, pop art of the 60's but
Turner and the Norfolk artist Edward Seago remain my keystone in
the world of art.
I am currently
engaged in one-to-one workshops at my studio, have been invited
to talk on my work to local Rotary group and have been requested
to act as tutor for a pensioners group in Ilford Essex."
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