About the Artist

My painting is a visual statement. The discussion of theories, meanings or subject matter in a painting is of no particular significance or interest to me; it is not what, for me, painting is about - the image is the 'thing'.

Born Glasgow 1946.

Graduated Glasgow School of Art.

1968 Diploma in Drawing and Painting

1969 Post Diploma in Drawing and Painting

1981 BA Honours Degree in Drawing and Painting

Elected artist member, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours 1980

Elected artist member, Society of Scottish Artists 1988

Elected artist member, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 2012

Elected artist member, Paisley Art Institute 2016

AWARDS

1967 Drawing Award GSA

1968 Sam Mavor Scholarship GSA

1968 Student Award RSA

1984 J. Murray Thomson Award RSA

1985 E.I.S.  Award RSA

2003 Alex Graham Munro RSW

2011 G.A.C.  Award RSW

2016 Malcolm Award PAI

2017 G . Devlin Award RGI

Regular exhibitor in RGI; RSA; RSW; SSA Annual Exhibitions from 1969

Selected touring exhibitions RSW; SSA .

Art Fairs Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, London

Exhibited Europe, America, and throughout Britain

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Royal Academy

Young Contemporaries

Scottish Contemporary Art, Fine Art Society London

Cleveland Drawing Biennial

Gallerie Aziza London

Glasgow Artists, Nuremberg

Artspace, San Francisco

Lynne Stern Gallery London

Smith Biennial Stirling

Bankside Gallery London

Contemporary Scottish Landscape, City  Art Centre Edinburgh

Collins Gallery Glasgow

Open Circle, Schweinfurt

369 Gallery Edinburgh

Third Eye Centre Glasgow

Thompsons Gallery London

Compass Gallery Glasgow

McLean Biennial Greenock

Richard Demarco Edinburgh

Glasgow Print Studio

Paisley Drawing Biennial

Lillie Art Gallery

Fidra Fine Art

MacLaurin Art Gallery Ayr

Cyril Gerber Fine Art

57 Gallery Edinburgh

Roger Billcliffe Gallery Glasgow

Shore Gallery Leith

Blythswood Gallery Glasgow

67 Charing Cross Gallery Glasgow

Visual Art Scotland

Paisley Art Institute

Glasgow Group

Fabriano

COLLECTIONS

The Fleming Collection

The Educational Institute of Scotland Collection

Strathclyde Education Authority

Renfrewshire Education Authority

Private collections UK, USA, Canada, Germany and France