Artist's Statement

My training as a printmaker using traditional and experimental methods has greatly influenced my concern with making images.
I have always been interested in shape and textures, in simplicity and the tension between realism and abstraction.
Most of my works are transformations of my interest in landscape/nature/objects and their reduction into marks, symbols and compositions - the distillation of matter into basic imagery.

Education

• 1976-1979 - B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, Preston Polytechnic.
• 1979-1980 - M.A. Printmaking, Manchester Polytechnic.

Academic Experience

• 1980 - Part-Time Lecturer, Manchester Polytechnic.
• 1981 - Appointed Full-time Lecturer in Printmaking, Grays School of Art.
• 1996 - Visiting Lecturer, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, M.F.A. Course, Dundee.

Awards

• 1992 - Shell Expro Award.
• 1992 - Scottish Arts Council Project Assistance Award to study Lithography at the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico.
• 1996 - Glasgow Print Studio Publication Award.

Commissions

• *With an Eye to the East*, Print Folio, Seagate Gallery, Dundee, Scottish Arts Council.
• 1991 - SSA Centenary Print Folio, Print.
• 1994 - Design for Etched and Printed Panels, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Intensive Therapy Unit.
• 2000 - P&O North Sea Ferries, Print.

Collections

• Newhall Art Collection, Cambridge University
• Aberdeen Art Gallery
• Scottish Arts Council
• Grampian Television
• BBC Scotland, Glasgow
• Leeds Education Authority
• Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
• Dunfermline NHS Trust
• Edinburgh Hospital Trust
• Shell Oil, Aberdeen

Bibliography

• Catalogue *In Search of Paradise*, with essays by Clare Henry and Arthur Watson.
• Brochure, *Liminal Moments*, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen.

Solo Exhibitions

• 1981 - Sutton College of Liberal Arts
• 1984 - Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, Prints & Paper Pulps.
• 1996 - Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen, *In Search of Paradise*, Prints, Box Constructions and Paper Pulp Works.
• 1997 - *In Search of Paradise*, Seagate Gallery, Dundee.
• 2000 - *Transitions* Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen.
• 2002 - *Liminal Moments*, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 1984 - *Papertrails*, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.
• 1985 - *Peacock 10*, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, U.S.A.
• 1985-86 - *Smiths Biennale*, Stirling, Glasgow.
• 1985-86 - *One Cubic Foot*, Sculpture Exhibition, Artspace Gallery, Aberdeen.
• 1985-86 - Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
• 1986 - *New Art from Scotland*, Warwick Arts Trust, London.
• 1986 - *International Paper Art*, Duren, Germany.
• 1986 - *Romance, Realism, Risk*, Artspace, Aberdeen.
• 1986 - *Prints from Peacock Printmakers*, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
• 1987 - *Paperworks*, Ruthin Crafts Centre, Wales.
• 1988-90 - *Inverclyde Biennale*, Glasgow and touring Scotland.
• 1988 - *Avant Garden*, Glasgow Print Studio.
• 1989 - *Artists Choice*, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.
• 1993 - *Paperworks*, Seagate Gallery, Dundee.
• 1995 - *Art 95*, London Contemporary Art Fair.
• 1996-97 - *Scottish Print Open 5*, Glasgow Print Studio, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen Print Workshops.
• 1996 - *Networking*, Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art.
• 1996 - *Peacock 21*, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen.
• 1996 - *Day of the Dead*, Glasgow Print Studio.
• 1996 - *Dias de los Muertos*, Self help Studio, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
• 1997 - *Double Exposure*, SSA, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
• 1997 - *JAR*, Seagate Gallery, Dundee.
• 1997 - *Miniatures*, Peacock Gallery, Aberdeen.
• 1998 - *50 Years of Scottish Art*, SAC Exhibition.
• 1998 - *Highland and Islands Open* Touring Scotland.
• 2000-02 - *Monumental Miniatures*, Touring Exhibition, Scotland.
• 2000-02 - *Hinterland*, Print Folio, Touring Internationally.
• 2006 - *20*, Joan Hughson Gallery, Glasgow.