Curriculum Vitae

ART EDUCATION

1973 - 76 Bath Academy of Art BA Hons Fine Art 1976
1976 - 77 Brighton Polytechnic Specialist Print Making Diploma 1977
1977 - 80 Royal College of Art MA Painting 1980
1980 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris


AWARDS

1979 Royal College of Art Minor Travel Scholarship
1980 Royal College of Art John Minton Award


ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I paint, in watercolour and gouache, subjects taken from my locality; Loch
Lomondside, the Firth of Clyde, the Arrochar Alps, the Campsie Fells, Argyll
and the Trossachs. I also gather material during holiday visits, recently to the
Outer Hebrides and Arran, where the whole spectrum of weather can be
experienced in a single day.

I am primarily interested in weather conditions and aim to give a sense of the
impending weather, i.e. before rain, threatened snow, after rain, windswept,
stillness. I attempt to do this by rendering particular effects of light on the
landscape or seascape, cast shadows, changes in focus, clarity to soft, veiled,
misty, patches and pockets of light.

EXHIBITIONS

1975 Stowells Trophy R.A.
1977 Heatherly Gallery, London.
1977 Brighton Polytechnic Gallery.
1979 Three College Show (R.C.A., R.A., Slade Schools) at R.C.A.
1981}
1985} Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1986}
1989}
1984 John Player Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London.
1984 - 89 British Watercolour Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London.
1984 - 85 Spirit of London Exhibition, Festival Hall, London.
1985 Contemporary Portraits, Bloomsbury Galleries, London.
1985 The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury.
1986 The Wykeham Galleries, Stockbridge.
1986 Christopher Hull Gallery, London.
1987 Richard Allen Gallery, London.
1999 Glasgow Society of Women Artists. The Mitchell Library.
The Paisley Art Institute.
2000Glasgow Society of Women Artists. The Lillie Gallery,
Milngavie.
Paisley Art Institute
2001The Rowan Gallery, Drymen.
The Briary Gallery, Callander.


COLLECTIONS

1980 Contemporary Arts Society.
1982 Leicestershire Collection.
1984 Open University, Milton Keynes.


COMMISSIONS

Philips & Hind Associates, Kensington, London.

Numerous private commissions.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Encyclopedia of Watercolour Techniques, by Hazel Harrison.