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"Antiquity" (St Mary's, Iffley) 14.5 x 10.5 inches

I was born in Northampton in 1935, where I attended Northampton Town and County Grammar School before going on to read Modern Languages at King's College, Cambridge University. Teacher of French at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet, then Lecturer in Italian at Birmingham University, before becoming Education Officer for the School Broadcasting Council in Manchester, my career in education culminated in my appointment as founding Regional Director of the Open University's South Region, based in Oxford. I took early retirement in 1986 in order to become a full-time artist.  

For many years virtually all my work was done en plein air and inevitably at a fairly rapid rate - little more than two hours for each painting; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I got used to finding shade from the glare and heat of the sun when the paint dried too fast, sheltering under a large fisherman's umbrella from the rain when the paint wouldn't dry at all, retrieving easel and painting from the river in high wind, and finding my lunch box frozen to the ground in the all-day frost. On one occasion I had painted a moderately successful picture on a painfully cold day and was relieved to get back into the car and to feel the warmth of the car heater on the way home. What I hadn’t realized, though, was that the watercolour painting, which I thought had dried, had in fact frozen and was busy melting in the car boot - with a few unintentional "wet-in-wet" effects as a result!

My style and methods have changed over the years. Fellow watercolour addicts may find it intriguing to see various stages of one of my pictures in "A picture in the making" 

Main exhibitions:  

1988 Borlase Gallery, Blewbury;

1988 &1993 Phyllis Court Club, Henley

1991 & 1993 Bow House Gallery, High Barnet

1991 & 1993 Bentlies Gallery, Woodstock

1995 Magee Gallery, Belfast

1995-2009, annually in the Art Gallery of the Stewards’ Enclosure , Henley Royal Regatta.

1991 to present, several exhibitions at Abingdon Gallery