Edinburgh College of Art, 1979-83 BA (Hons) After graduating in 1983 his love of film led to him working with BBC Scotland in Glasgow. He moved to London in 1989 to work as an Art Director. His work often celebrates his enduring relationship with France and Italy. He paints from a studio at the top of the family home.
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2021 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol, ‘Mellow’ 2020 Lemond Gallery, Glasgow, ‘Les Pensees d’un artiste’ 2020 Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh, ‘Quedubon’ 2019 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol ‘Of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ 2019 Thompson’s Marylebone, London ‘With love’ 2018 Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh 'Amour Amore' 2018 John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh 'Those moments of Leisure' 2017 Thompson’s Marylebone, London, ‘A Sense of Place’ 2016 Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh, ‘A Tale of 2 Cities’ 2015 Thompson’s Marylebone, London, ‘Beaucoup d’Amour’ 2015 Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh, ‘Café Society’ 2015 Lemond Gallery, Glasgow, ‘Collection’ 2014 Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk, ‘A Painter’s Palette’ 2014 Lemond Gallery, Glasgow, ‘Joie de Vivre’ 2013 Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow 2013 Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh, ‘Menage’ 2012 Doubtfire Gallery, Edinburgh, ‘Quintessentially French’ 2011 Bath Contemporary, ‘L’Alliance’ 2011 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol 2011 Thompson's Marylebone, London, ‘Entente Cordiale’ 2010 RGI Kelly Gallery, Glasgow, ‘A Very French Affair’ 2009 Bianco Nero Gallery, Stokesley 2002 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 1996 and 1998 Sally Hunter Fine Art, London
Awards 2019 Eat and Drink Italy Purchase Award at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour Exhibition 2017 Ruthven Gallery Award at the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour 2015 Artist Surfaces Award at the Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition 2011 The Jamieson Award at The Scottish Drawing Competition 2010 Winsor and Newton Award at the Annual Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour 2008 and 2007 The Wren Gallery Award for Still Life Painting at the Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition 2007 Art Hire Prize, Scottish Drawing Competition hosted by Paisley Art Institute 2007 Selected for Sunday Times/Singer Friedlander Watercolour Prize 2005 Art Hire Prize, at the Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition 2003 Runner up 2003 Aspect (Kennox) Painting Prize
Collections
Royal Bank of Scotland The Maclaurin Trust Collection First State Investments Heckfield Place Hotel