Statement:
"I work directly from landscape, familiar places to which I return often.
The nearby coastal coves, the inland heath and its roads and tracks score and divide, whilst the creeks and rivers with their deep banks bathe in expansive light.
These places re-visited appear changed and re-created. Working outside gives me the needed stimuli to create.
The larger painting develops in the studio from this, rooted in and through the exploration of the smaller pieces."

Born Sydney Australia 1961
1987-90 Falmouth College of Art Fine Art (BA Hons)
1990-93 Royal Academy Schools MA
1993 Married the painter Jeremy Annear
1994 Moved to Cornwall
1995 Elected Member of the Newlyn Society of Artists

Solo exhibitions
2007 Camden Gallery, Chipping Camden, Glos
2006 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives
2005 Camden Gallery, Chipping Camden, Glos
2004 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2002 New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2001 Beaux Arts, Bath
2000 Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge
2000 Messums Fine Art, London
1999 The New Millennium Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
1998 The Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1996 The Oxford Gallery, Oxford

Selected mixed exhibitions
2007 Modern Works on Paper and Watercolours & Drawings Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London (Abbott & Holder Ltd, London)‘
‘Still Life Exhibition’ Lynne Strover Gallery, Fen Ditton , Cambridge
2007/06 ART2006, Islington Design Cenre, London (Edgar Modern, Bath)
‘Art from Cornwall’ New Grafton Gallery, London
Royal West of England Academy Open Exhibiition
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Winchester

‘A Splash of Colour’ New Grafton Gallery,)London
2005 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London (2nd prize & poster)
The Cornish Exhibition, Edgar Modern, Bath

2004 Trebah, Cornwall ‘Hunting Art Prizes’

2004/03/02/00/99/98 Hunting Art Prizes, The Royal College of Art, London
2004/03/02/02/00/99/98 Messums Contemporary Mixed Exhibitions London (David Mussum Gallery)2002 Adam Gallery, Mixed Exhibition, Bath
2001 From the Heart (showcase exhibition) Newlyn Art GalleryCornwall
1999 The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London Critics Choice (William Packer, FT Art Critic) Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
Newlyn Now, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1998/93/92/91 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London
1997 The NatWest Art Prize Exhibition (Prize-winner), Lothbury Gallery,London
Critics Choice (David Lee, Editor, Arts Review)
1996 The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Royal overseas League Annual Open Exhibition, Royal
Overseas House, London and Edinburgh College of Art
Landscapes From the West Penwith, Hastings Museumand Art Gallery
Critics Choice (Sasha Craddock, the Times) Newlyn Art Gallery 1993
London/Leipzig, 10RA PG Students, Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany
London Group, Members and Guests (invited by Ray Atkins)
Morely Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London
New Generation, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwal

Awards & Prizes
2005 Hunting Art Prize (2nd Prize) and Poster
1997 NatWest Art Prize finalist & Prizewinner
1996 First Prize, Gold Medal, The Worshipful Company of Painter-Strainers Annual
1993 Cyril Sweett Award, PG Painting
Royal Watercolour Society Award
David Murray Travel Scholarship

Publications & Reviews2005 Hunting Catalogue & Publication
2004 New Millennium Gallery catalogue forward by William Packer (Financial Times Art
Critic)
William Packer Review, Hunting Art Prizes (FT 0-02-03)
Frank Ruhrmund: The Cornishman and Western Morning News
West Briton Review (May)
Pip Palmer, Galleris (June)
Living on the Edge, The Guardian (June)

2003 Catching the Wave, Art and Artists in Cornwall. Tom Cross, Halsgrove Press
2000 Painters and Sculptors from the South West, Messums, London
Catalogue essay by Jenny Pery
Exhibition Catalogue essay by William Packer, FT critic. Messums Publication
1999 William Packer Review (FT 20-05-97)
1997 NatWest Art Prize Catalogue essay by Brian Robertson
Royal Overseas League Catalogue
1993 London Underground Poster Campaign for Royal Academy Summer Season

Major Collections & Commissions
Collections include Cornwall County Council, Falmouth Art School, Workhouse Design, Guinness Collection; The Swiss Bank
Commissions include the Cruise Ship The Crystal Serenity