Awards
2022 Long listed for Jackson’s Painting Prize and HollyBush Painting Award
Shortlisted for Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022
2021 Appointed Artist in Residence by Essex Gardens Trust
Works acquired by Victor Batte-Lay Foundation
Instagram takeover invitation for Ladies, Design & Wine, Ipswich
2020 Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant for Garden Seekers Project
2018 Firstsite Collectors’ Award Bursary
2006 Doric Award Eastern Open King’s Lynn Arts Centre
2005 Commissioned to make work for Khalo’s Contemporaries exhibition Art Exchange University of Essex
2002 Best in show Award Eastern Open King's Lynn Arts Centre
2000 Short-listed for B.P.Portrait Award Travel Prize National Portrait Gallery
1998 Murals commission for J.Sainsbury Stamford House
1997 Awarded Lottery funded commission for Brookside Primary School Telford
1988 Gibney Award Lincolnshire College of Art
Selected exhibitions
2024 The Garden Seekers at the Peto Pavilion Gardens of Easton Lodge Little Easton Essex
2023 The Garden Seekers: an artistic lens on the great gardens of Essex solo show The Adam Dining Parlour Audley End House & Gardens Saffron Walden Essex
Nature : Tamed & unbound with Simon Cater and Jean Watkins Jones Benham Gallery Cuckoo Farm Studios Colchester Essex
2022 Selected for Summer Exhibition Babylon Gallery Ely
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Woolwich Works No.1 Street Royal Arsenal Woolwich London
Trinity Bouy Wharf Drawing Prize London, Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery Basingstoke, Art House Jersey
2021
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Woolwich Works No.1 Street Royal Arsenal Woolwich London
Encounters group exhibition with 4 women painters Muse Gallery Portobello Road London
The Big summer group show Oasis Frinton on Sea Essex
Summer exhibition Naze Tower Walton on the Naze Essex
Silent Spring The Minories Colchester Essex
Second Floor Studios Painting Open NoFormat Gallery Deptford London
Open Studios Outside 2021 Cuckoo Farm Studios Colchester Essex
2020
#Curating for corona online Instagram exhibition curated by Katherine Wood
Garden Seekers Project Artist in Residence Hamilton MAS the micro art space by the sea Felixstowe
Art in the Garden group exhibition Clavering Essex
2019
Towards the Parterre Oasis Frinton-on-Sea
Resistant Materials III collaboration with Potter Martin Bridges Blackwater Polytechnic Feering Essex
Prospect with Simon Carter Naze Tower Essex
Lost in Wonderland // Tales from the Greenwood The Minories Colchester
Framing the makers collaboration with Potter Martin Bridges Red Lion Books Colchester
Painting as Terrain The Crypt at St. Marylebone Church London (Click link to read catalogue and artist panel discussion transcript. Supported by Contemporary British Painting)
2018
Painting as Terrain The Octagon Colchester
Mixed exhibition Gallery 6 Newark Nottinghamshire
All Together Now A multidisciplinary Showcase of UCC Staff The Minories Colchester
Bodegon: Portrait of the modest vessel collaboration with Potter Martin Bridges Naze Tower Essex
2016
PING @ The Minories Colchester selected by Jeffrey Dennis
Ways of Seeing The Paint Collective exhibition The Boathouse Gallery Flatford Mill National Trust
2015
The Paint Collective Harwich Festival
2014
30 years of 12PM The Minories Colchester
2013
Cork Street open Exhibition Mayfair London
This Year’s Model Studio 1:1 London
2012
12Printmakers Highgate Contemporary Art London
2010
Diverse Realisms with Nicholas and Mike Middleton The Minories Colchester (Click link to read catalogue PDF)
2009
Re:Mark The Gallery in Redchurch Street London
2008
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Mall Galleries London
2006
Beyond the call of duty New Town Hall Galleries Ipswich
2005
Artist in residence Firstsite @ Minories Colchester
Khalo’s contemporaries University Gallery Essex
2003/4
Eastern Open King's Lynn Art's Centre
2002
Over The River group show Wolsey Gallery Ipswich
Eastern Open King’s Lynn Arts Centre
2000
Artists in Essex Epping Forest Museum Waltham Abbey
1999
BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London
Green Room Firstsite Colchester
1998
BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London
