Artist's CV

500 Portraits: The BP Portrait Award

Author: Sandy Nairne

(National Portrait Gallery Publications - 2011)

Selected Exhibitions

2020 Scottish Portrait Awards, selected for the Fine art long list.

2020 Ing Discerning Eye Exhibition, online exhibition.

2017 The Ruth Rorchard Prize Exhibition, Piano Nobile Gallery, London.

2016 Solo Exhibition, The Flora Twort Gallery, Petersfield.

2016 Solo Exhibition, Fork Handles Kitchen, Petersfield.

2016  RSA Open Exhibition, Edinburgh

2013  Salisbury Art Trail, exhibiting at Myriad Antiques.

'Contemporary Scottish Painting', Lloyds TSB Scotland 120 Henry Duncan House, George Street Edinburgh

'Art of The Olympics', Scottish Widows 69 Morrison Street Edinburgh

Festival Fringe Exhibition, Lloyds TSB Bank, George Street, Edinburgh

'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London

Work featured on Channel 4's 'Property Ladder'

Exhibiting throughout the U.K. in Lloyds T.S.B. Private Banking Offices.

BP Portrait Award, The National Gallery, London.

'Face to Face', a group show at Rowe and Maw, London.

Marks and Spencer Head Office show, London.

Solo Exhibition in Aberdeen Art Gallery Cafe, Scotland.

'Nine Past Nine Present', The Gallery, Cork Street, .

The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in watercolours, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

The Royal Overseas League, 14th Annual Open Exhibition, Overseas House, London.

Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London.

Group summer show at The Florence Trust Studios, London.

The Hunting Award at The Royal College of Art, London.

The Morrison Scottish Portrait Competition, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

Art Awards and Prizes

A Second Award from The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Duveen Scholarship to go to Barcelona, Spain. Awarded by The Slade School of Fine Art.

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

John Kinross Scholarship to Florence, Italy. Awarded by The Royal Scottish Academy.

The Valgra Trading Prize for Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art.

Andrew Grant Bequest: Student Exchange to Tours, France.

Cadbury’s National Children’s Art Exhibition – Italian Tour Winner.

Art Residencies and Teaching.

2015 - Head of Art and Design, Bedales Prep School, Steep.

2012 -2015  Teacher of Art, Leehurst Swan School, Salisbury. 

1998-2001 Teacher of Art History, Wycombe Abbey School, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

Artist-in Residence, The Florence Trust Studios, Highbury, London.

1997  Artist-in Residence, St George's School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire.