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My Background
I grew up in an isolated village in North Dorset, in an ancient landscape of rolling hills, deep valleys, dark woods, and rugged farmland. Without a television in the house, I would instead explore the local countryside, and from an early age went out landscape painting alongside my father. After Art College in Bournemouth and Farnham, I moved to London in the early 90's, first working as a figurative painter and then developing an Abstract language of painting after seeing the Gerhard Richter, "Painting in the 90's" exhibition at Anthony D'Offay Gallery in 1995.
I then moved back to Dorset in 1998, first to the Oakhayes Art Residency in Symondsbury, and then to the town of Bridport the following year. Inspired by the local countryside I returned once again to landscape painting, drawing strongly from my childhood memories and exploring deep into the locality to produce my distinctive new series of landscape paintings.
Between November 2016 to November 2017 I ran a project space at the Garden Gallery, Great Pulteney Street, Bath. From 1999 to 2018 I was based at St Michael’s Studios in Bridport’s Art & Vintage Quarter, before moving to my own studio in Downes Street in 2019.
My Practice
Since 2007 my ideal working method has involved focusing for several months on a series of major paintings, each of which are based on preparatory sketches, photographs, and collages inspired by locations within a 10 mile radius of my studio. This approach allows me to maintain a level of excellence in my practice, often returning to familiar locations in series of paintings that follow nature through the seasons.
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2021 Exhibiting at Bridport Contemporary Gallery, 11 Downes Street, Bridport DT6 3JR
Working on commission “January Evening from Eggardon Hill”
Working on commission “Gentle Evening from Eggardon Hill”
Working on commission “An Autumn view in West Milton”
2020 Exhibiting at Bridport Contemporary Gallery, 11 Downes Street, Bridport DT6 3JR
12-month commission “Bluebells on Lewesdon Hill”
2019 Exhibiting at Bridport Contemporary Gallery, 11 Downes Street, Bridport DT6 3JR
Bridport Open Studios at 11 Downes Street, Bridport.
2018 Bridport Open Studios in Bradpole, West Dorset.
8-month commission “An evening in the Offwell Valley, Devon”
2017 "Dorset Magazine Landscape Painters of the Year", Lighthouse Gallery, Poole 17 February - 18 March
Monthly Open Studio, final weekend of the month at Ground Floor Gallery, 48 Great Pulteney Street, Bath BA2 4DP
2016 8-month Private Commission "A view near Burton Bradstock"
Bridport Open Studios
2015 "View from Bulbarrow Hill" is Highly Commended at "The Marshwood Vale Awards", Bridport Arts Centre
12-month commission "View from Bulbarrow Hill"
12-month commission "The Last Cafe"
Bridport Open Studios
2014 Exhibited "Dark Cafe" at the "Home in Bridport" exhibition at Bridport Arts Centre
8-month commission "A View near Whitchurch Canonicorum"
Bridport Open Studios
2013 "Kit Glaisyer - The Cinematic Landscape" at the Octagon Gallery, Bath
Working on "Contemporary UK Landscape Painting" with writer Melany Hughes
Bridport Open Studios
2012 Holburne Portrait Prize Finalist, Holburne Museum, Bath
6-month commission "Lewesdon Bluebells"
2011 8-month Private Commissions "Path on Lewesdon Hill"
6-month commission "Dripping Figure"
2010 Produced"25 Bridport Painters & Sculptors" Book with photographer George Wright & writer Lu Orza
8-month commission "Lewesdon Tree"
2009 8-month Private Commission "View from Lewesdon Hill"
6-month commission "Ocean"
2008 8-month Private Commission "Hazy summer across the Marshwood Vale"
2007 "Drip Figures" two-man exhibition at Truman Brewey, London
5-month commission "Path on Allington Hill"
2006 "A Splash of Colour" New Grafton Gallery, Barnes, London
Gallery Artist, William Pelly Gallery, Lyme Regis
Gallery Artist, Pierrepoint Gallery, Bridport
6-month commissions, "Cafe Royal" (series)
2005 Gallery Artist, William Pelly Gallery, Lyme Regis
Gallery Artist, Pierrepoint Gallery, Bridport
6-month commissions, inc. "Cafe Royal" (series)
2004 "On the way to work" solo show at Alsop Gallery, Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset
Gallery Artist, William Pelly Gallery, Lyme Regis
Gallery Artist, Pierrepoint Gallery, Bridport
Gallery Artist, Artoose Gallery, Belsize Park, London
2003 Gallery Artist, Artoose Gallery, Belsize Park, London
Gallery Artist, Pierrepoint Gallery, Bridport, Dorset
2002 Gallery Artists, Artoose Gallery, Belsize Park, London
2001 "Journey from the Inner City to the Edge of the Sea", 2-Man Exhibition, Gallery 47, London
2000 Private Commission "Large Multicolour Abstract"
"Square Abstracts", Solo Show, Raffles Gallery, Kings Road, London
1999 Started St Michael's Studios, Bridport, Dorset
Private Commissions "6 Large Abstracts"
Gallery Artist, Suzanne Ruggles Gallery, Kings Road, Chelsea, London
1998 Oakhayes Art Community, Symondsbury, Dorset
Gallery Artist, Suzanne Ruggles Gallery, Kings Road, Chelsea, London
1997 Long Lane Studios, Borough, South London
Gallery Artist, Suzanne Ruggles Gallery, Kings Road, Chelsea, London
1995 Blue Chapel Studios, John Ruskin Street, Walworth, South London
1995 "United Abstract Artists" Group Exhibition, Bayswater, West London
1992 Fine Art Degree, Farnham CAD
1991 Foundation Diploma, Bournemouth & Poole CAD