Artist profiles

One person shows in London have been held at the Lisson Gallery (1969), the Serpentine Gallery (1973 and 1976), the Acme Gallery (1980), Benjamin Rhodes Gallery (1986, ’89, ’92, ’93, and ’95) and the Drawing Gallery (2004). In 2008 he showed at the Galleria Immaginaria in Florence, and also showed recent collages at the Wills Lane Gallery in St Ives.

Since 1970 he has shown in numerous group exhibitions. These include British Painting 1952 – 1977, Royal Academy, London, in 1977; Arts Council of Great Britain – Recent Acquisitions, Hayward Gallery, London, in 1978; The British Art Show, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK, in 1980; Three Painters, Camden Arts Centre, London, in 1986; John Moores Exhibition 18, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, in 1994; British Abstract Painting, Flowers East Gallery, London, in 1994; International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy, in 1997, in which he was the winner of a Gold Medal for Painting; The Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition, The Prince's Foundation, London, in 2001; Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK, in 2006; meta- Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, in 2009; mini-meta-, Beardsmore Gallery, London, in 2009.

In 1978 he was awarded the Mark Rothko Memorial Award. He has made large scale commissioned works, most recently for the Glaxo Wellcome Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage UK, in 1994, and for Linklaters Alliance in London in 1997. His work is in numerous public, corporate and private collections. These include: The Government Art Collection; The British Council; The Arts Council of England; The Department of the Environment; The National Museum of Wales; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery; The National Gallery of Art Budapest; Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

He lives and works in London.