Currently exhibited in the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait online longlist exhibition

self portrait at 44, oil on linen,

101 x 76 cm

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Open Studio Exhibition with Jessica Biggs -September 2025

Our exhibition at Regent’s Park Gallery in North London has now come to a close. Thank you to everyone who visited, looked at it online, shared and commented on Instagram, and who showed their support by buying our paintings. We are very grateful. The remaining pictures that are still available can be viewed here - thank you!

Solo exhibition ‘flowers in the window

May/June 2024

155a Gallery, East Dulwich, London

London Art Fair 2024

Exhibited with 155a Gallery

‘The writer’, 2023

This portrait of Catherine was a prize winner in the Hampstead Art Society annual exhibition 2023

‘Shimmering space’ a joint exhibition with Jessica Biggs

June 2022

286 Gallery, London

Anomie Collections 1 2022

This catalogue - link to amazon page by clicking on image - contains a series of still life paintings that I made as a commission in 2022. Other contemporary painters featured too. Thanks to Matt Price!

My book on painting - published by The Crowood Press in 2016

The advice to look more than paint is vital if it is the last sitting, and can be useful at other times too. When you know that there will be no more chances of painting this person from life, the difficulty becomes that of really seeing the subject as a whole…

This short extract is from page 116, in a chapter about the fifth day painting a portrait (Chapter 9). Clicking on the image will take you to The Crowood Press website page, from where it should be possible to order a copy of the book. It is also available outside the UK through Amazon - click to see.

‘Bathers, and other pictures’

2011

A solo exhibition at Royal Opera Arcade gallery on central London’s Pall Mall

selected images from previous years…

My paintings are mainly in private collections.

They are in over twenty different countries across four continents; North America, Europe, Oceania and South America. I have pictures in twenty one different States of the USA, and across thirty seven different counties in the UK.

Thank you all for your incredible support.