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Education
1991 Grays School of Art, Robert Gordon University,
Aberdeen: Fine Art
(drawing and painting): 1st class honours
1992 Higher Diploma in Post-graduate Studies
1998-2000 Lectured part-time at Grays
Awards
1989-90 & 1990-91 Cornwall Steele Award for Painting
1991 Runner up, Morrison Scottish Portrait
Award
1992 2nd Prize, Hunting Art Prizes
1998 1st Prize, Hunting Art Prizes
1999 1st Prize, Morrison Scottish Portrait
Award
2000 Arts Club award, Royal Scottish Academy
2001 Regional Prize, Hunting Art Prizes
2nd Prize, Singer & Friedlander
Watercolour Award
2002 2nd Prize, Singer & Friedlander
Watercolour Award
Glasgow Arts Club Fellowship Award
2003 Kathleen Tronson Award, New English Arts
Club
Judging panel: Hunting Arts Prizes
(2002), Singer & Friedlander (2003, 2004)
2006 Awarded the Freedom of the Worshipful
Painter Stainers' Livery Company
Travel
Awards/Scholarships
1991 John Kinross Travel Scholarship, Florence
1999 Hogeschool, Sint Lukas, Brussels (BP Travel Award)
2000 Verrocchio Arts Centre, Tuscany (scholarship place)
2002 Chateau Balleroy, France (Prince’s Foundation)
Bursary Drawing Year placement, Prince’s
Foundation, London
Public Collections
· National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery,
Reading Museum,
Singer & Friedlander,
London, Aberdeen Arts Gallery
· Distribution of work: UK, USA, Belgium, Canada, Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain
· Lord's MCC Museum
Portrait Commissions Include:
Leonard Manasseh, R.A. Architect
Viscount Weir Weir Group
Edinburgh Fund Managers
Dame Prof. Gillian Beer Retiring Principal, Clare Hall, Cambridge
Robin Jenkins Writer (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
Thelma Holt Theatre Producer (National Portrait Gallery)
Kathleen Soriano Exhibitions & Collections Management, NPG
Tuscan Energy, Aberdeen
Margaret Smith Lady provost, Aberdeen City Council
Paul Anderson Musician (Aberdeen Art Gallery)
Alan Caiger-Smith Ceramicist (Reading Museum)
Michael Frayn Playwright & author (National Portrait Gallery)
Richard Smethurst Provost, Worcester College, Oxford
Dr Alison Elliott Moderator for the Church of Scotland
Standard Chartered International Bank
Mansur Ali Khan:Nawab of Pataudi commissioned by Lord's MCC
Dame Stephanie Shirley, Prior's Court School, Newbury
Sir Tim Berners Lee, for the Royal Society London, work in progress |
