Biography

Biography

1960 Born, Edinburgh

1978/81 University of Edinburgh, Social Anthropology

19891/91 Kingston Polytechnic, CQSW (Social Work)

1995/97 Goldsmiths College, University of London, Psychodynamic Counselling Diploma

1999/2000 Chelsea College of Art, P/T foundation

2000/02 University of Brighton, MA Fine Art

Paintings are held in private collections in Ireland, South Africa, USA and UK
and by Paintings in Hospitals (national collection) UK and the ESB (Irish electricity board) collection.

Selected Recent Exhibitions:

Alex Macarthur Interiors Rye August 2019 - ongoing

Affordable Art Fair London with Candida Stevens London October 2018

Candida Stevens Gallery Winter Show December 2017/ December 2018

Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London November 2017 - featured artist

Alex Macarthur Rye September 2017

Bellwood and Wright Gallery Lancaster April 2017 - three person show

Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London November 2016 - featured artist

Inside Outside Edgar Modern Gallery Bath 2015 - solo show

Radev Collection Bath Museum 2014

Work is available at Candida Stevens Gallery Chichester, Cameron Contemporary Brighton, Sarah Bellwood Gallery Lancaster and Alex Macarthur in Rye.

Portrait by Alex Bamford.

ARTISTS STATEMENT

My work is broadly about states of mind....I am interested in the slightly out of reach, the maybe and the perhaps.....providing glimpses and creating possibilities that invite the viewer to join the dots......I like to adopt a playful and flexible approach in my practice but the vocabulary and intent remain constant......an attempt to reveal what I see and sense around me and the beauty and absurdity of our plight.....reflections on the moth eaten tapestry of life........

2014

..through an organic process I seek to suspend the viewer.....
...to provide glimpses, snapshots, sometimes like film cells, layers, sedimentary stuff....
....through the grid order over chaos and chaos over order....
.....to make some sense of what I see and to provide a kind of balance without falling over.

2006