I was also featured on SKYArts Portrait Artist of the Year
and my work was selected to be kept by the sitter
Actor and writer David Haig MBE (Four weddings and a funeral).
Lastly... my double portrait of Sarah and William was longlisted for the 2020 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery.
BIOGRAPHY
I am years old, and have been a professional artist since 2002.
I began selling my art and taking commissions at the age of eleven yet began working firstly as professional musician (SEE MUSIC PAGE HERE).
My painting was first accepted for the world-famous BP Portrait Award exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery in London, England, in 2004.
My paintings have won many awards and been exhibited in some of the most prestigious exhibitions in the world. In 2006 a portrait of my parents was selected as a finalist for the largest art-prize in the south-west
of England.
The portrait award was being judged by Rachel Cambell Johnson (Times art critic), Sir Peter Blake (Artist) and Bel Mooney (Author). I was selected as the winner and awarded the five thousand pound portrait commission.
In 2008 I held a solo exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath, which opened with live BBC coverage for the unveiling of my portrait of triple academy award-winning directors Peter Lord CBE, Nick Park CBE and David Sproxton.
My portrait commission 'Supper at Aardman' became part of our national collection. SEE HERECollections
Holburne Museum, Bath.
Buckfast Abbey
St. Patricks Church, Redfield, Bristol
Koç Museum, Istanbul
Trinity College, Cambridge
(Double portrait) Bowes-Lyon, St Pauls Waldenbury.
The Provincial Grand Lodge Of Bristol
Awards
(Shortlisted) Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2021
(Longlisted) BP Portrait Award 2020
(Contestant) Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the year 2020
(Finalist) Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2016
(Runner-Up) Jackson's Oil Competition 2016Read Interview
(Finalist) Artists and Illustrators Artist of the year 2011
(WINNER) Holburne Portrait Prize 2006See Prize Commission
(WINNER) BFA Best Painting Award - Royal West of England Academy of Art (RWA)
(WINNER) Excellence in Watercolour Award - RWA 2008
(WINNER) Consumer Intelligence Watercolour Award - RWA 2007
(WINNER) St. Cuthberts Mill Works on Paper Award - 2007
(WINNER) Peoples Choice Award - Victoria Gallery 2006
Exhibitions
Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2022, Mall Galleries, London
Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2021 (Shortlisted Artist)
Royal West of England Academy of Art 2020
Portrait Artist of The Year 2020 (Sky Arts Tv Show)
Royal West of England Academy of Art - Autumn Exhibition 2019
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) 2018
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Guildford House Gallery 2017
The Roper Gallery, Bath - 2017
Royal Society of Portrait Painters (INVITED ARTIST) 2016
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Mall Galleries 2016
Royal Society of British Artists - 2014
Cork Street Open - Cork Street London - 2010
National Portrait Gallery - Portrait Gala 2009
Painting Aardman - Solo Exhibition - Holburne Museum - 2008
Royal Society of Portrait Painters (INVITED ARTIST) 2008
BP Portrait Award 2007
The Singer Freidlander Sunday Times Award - 2006
National Portrait Gallery - Portrait Gala 2005
Painting Exhibition - RWA - 2005
The Singer Freidlander Sunday Times Award - 2005
Solo Exhibition - Center Space - Bristol 2004
BP Portrait Award 2004
Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2004 - 2016
The Hunting Art Prizes - 2005
RWA Open painting exhibition - 2005
The Singer Freidlander Sunday Times Award - 2004
Bath Society of Artists - 2004 to 2012
Royal West of England Academy of Art - Autumn Exhibition 1999 - 2009
Notable Sitters
The Right Reverend Abbot David Charlesworth O.S.B
The Right Reverend Canon Gregory Grant
PGM Jonathan Davis
Dep PGM Richard Lewis
David Haig Collum Ward MBE(PAOTY Sky Arts)
Peter Lord, CBE
Nick Park, CBE
David Sproxton, CBE
Ömer Koç
Prof. Val Gibson
Sir Simon Bowes Lyon (1st Cousin HM Queen)
Lady Caroline Bowes Lyon
Spencer Kelly (Director)
David Cox (Artist)
David Cobley RP (Artist) Sold at National Portrait Gallery Portrait Gala
Anthony Beeson (Time Team Art Historian)
Holly Belsher (Artist)
