I am exhibiting at
Coast Colour Canvas Gallery, Roskilly's Cornwall
May 23rd - 29th 2026
I will be there everyday and will be painting in the gallery. It is the Cornwall Open Studio Week too.
Please come and say hello and have an ice cream!
SILENCE SPEAKS - The Poly, Falmouth, Cornwall 2014
I created large portraits of boat builders, show casing the characters and world of wooden boat building as I had known over the past 8 years. I completed 7 of the 12 paintings I hoped to complete, I exhibited them at The Poly in Falmouth in 2014. I also showed landscape and still life, and some photography and lino cuts with poems I had written.
The 7 paintings were of: Andy Cornish caulking, Kim Ballard riveting in the beam shelf, Nick Rolf fitting a stem, myself puttying, Jon Albrecht as rigger, Jon Bray building Unity and Ashley Butler cutting the rabbit.
THE BEACH HUT GALLERY, Whitstable, Kent 2004-2006
In 2004 after meeting Ashley Butler and finishing my degree I moved in a freezing January to a small fisherman's cottage on the sea front in Whitstable Kent. Sailing and life on the boats in Kent was facinating for a sailor from west of the Solent. All that mud and engineless sailing. It was a real eye opener, but I loved the smacks, bawleys and barges and felt the Magic of the Swatchways. I started to paint more seriously here and ran a successful little gallery selling my paintings and photographs for 2 years, and also exhibited with Den Philips.
