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.
