Awards
2006 3rd Prize BP Portrait Award
2005 Art Exposure Prize, RGI Royal Glasgow Institute
2004 NS MacFarlane Award, RGI Royal Glasgow Institute
Competitions
2021 – Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize London
2021 – Scottish Portrait Award – Longlist
2021 – Royal Society of Portrait Painters - Longlist
2021 – ArtGeminiPrize London
2018 - ARC 13th International ARC Salon competition – Finalist Portraiture and Figurative
2016 – ARC 12th International ARC Salon competition – Finalist Portraiture
2009, 08, 07, 06 – RSA Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
2009, 08, 07, 06 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Mall Galleries London
2008, 06 BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London
2012, 2009, 08, 07, 06, 05 Royal Glasgow Institute Glasgow
Exhibitions
2021 – Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize London
2021 – ArtGeminiPrize London
2021 – RSA Annual Exhibition Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
2021, 22, 23 – Heriot Gallery, Edinburgh
2011 - BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London
2011 – PAI Paisley Art Institute
2010 - Rollo Contemporary Fine Art London
2009, 08, 07, 06 – RSA Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
2009, 08, 07, 06 Royal Society of Portrait Painters Mall Galleries London
2008, 06 BP Portrait Award National Portrait Gallery London
2012, 2009, 08, 07, 06, 05 Royal Glasgow Institute Glasgow
2008 – Solo Show ‘SKIN’ Rollo Contemporary Art London
2006 – Solo Show ‘FLESH’ Rollo Contemporary Art London
Group
Rollo Gallery London
Beaux Art Bath
Catto Gallery London
Enid Lawson London
Thompson’s London
Flying Colours London
Edinburgh Gallery Edinburgh
Leith Gallery Edinburgh
Arteries Glasgow
Glasgow Art Club
Affordable Art Fair Battersea and New York
Notable Commissions
Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer Commissioned by Inner Temple
Professor Sir Pete Downes – Commissioned by Dundee University
Professor Nigel Seaton – Commissioned by Abertay University
Professor Alice Brown – Commissioned by Abertay University
Publications
500 Portraits: The BP Portrait Award - published by National Portrait Gallery
Dictionary of Scottish Painters by Julian Halsb, Paul Harris published by Birlinn Ltd (1 Oct 2010)
Television
2007 BBC2 Royal Academy
Radio
2006 BBC Radio Scotland Contemporary Portraiture
Teaching
2018 Heatherleys School of Art
2010-2015 Glasgow Art Club
2010-Present Wasps private tuition and portfolio preparation
Education
2016 New York Academy Art – Palette mixing, Drawing Atelier Masterclass, Still Life Masterclass
2015 New York Academy of Art - How to surpass photography as a reference
1984-7 Fine Art - Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art, Dundee
2015 Etching Glasgow Print Studio
2018/19 Edinburgh Ceramics Studio
Studio
2000-2005 – Westbourne Studios, Notting Hill London
2005 – to date - Wasps –Patriothall Edinburgh
