- Education
and qualifications
- 1969-1979
Attended Buckhaven High school
- Gained
8 ordinary grades and 4 highers;
- Art
(A), English (A), French (B), Physics (B)
- 1974-1979
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art.
- Diploma
and Post -graduate Diploma in drawing and painting.
- Exhibitions
- Selected
group exhibitions
- 2002
Royal college of physicians Affordable Art fair, Battersea, London. Atholl
gallery, Dunkeld. Scotlandart.com, Glasgow.
- 2001
Royal Glasgow Institute. Frames gallery, Perth. Glasgow Art Fair
- 2000
College Collective exhibition, Frames gallery.
- 1997
Morrision Scottish Portrait Award, Royal Scottish Academy. Shoreline Studio,
Aberdour.
- 1996
Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Eastern General Hospital. WASPS
Festival show, Assembly rooms, Pleasance, gilded balloon, Theatre workshop;
Pleasance theatre
- 1992
Duncan of Jordanstone College, School of Fine art - Decade show.
- 1990
National Portrait Gallery, London. SAAC (Scottish Artists and Artists Craftsmen.)
- 1989
Blytheswood Gallery, Glasgow. Morrison Scottish Portrait Award, RSA. "When
we were young"- Childhood in British art, City Art Centre, Edinburgh. "Should
auld Aquaintance be forgot", City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
- 1988
"Non- Residents Welcome", Crawford Art Centre, St. Andrews.
- 1986
National Portrait gallery, London
- Solo
Exhibitions
- 1994-98
WASPS Studios, Edinburgh
- 1992
Eden Court Theatre
- 1985
Eden Court Theatre
- 1984
Crawford Art Centre
- 1982
Dundee Repertory Theatre
- Teaching
and Employment history
- Teaching
experience
- 1998
-Present Part-time lecturer in art and design, Dundee College
- 1994-2001
Part-time lecturer in fine art, Duncan of Jordanstone College, University
of Dundee
- 1989-1994
Part-time lecturer in art and design at Borders Colleae
- 1989
Visiting lecturer, Glasgow School of Art.
- Subjects
taught include; General drawing; Figure/ life drawing; Portrait drawing
and painting; Oil painting; Water-based painting; Experimental print-making;
Basic 2-dimentional design; Fashion drawing, location drawing.
- Employment
- 1982-present
- Extensive
and varied free-lance work including both private and public portrait commisions.
Illustrations for B&W publishing, Edinburgh, and D.C Thomson, Dundee. Free-lance
work for professional theatre productions in Edinburgh Free-lance work for
ITN news, and BBC drama. Private tuition and workshops for children
- 1982-83
- Member
of Blackness Environmental Arts Team; Designed and made mosaic murals situated
in Polepark road, Dundee.We also ran community based mural projects
- 1980-81
- Supervisor
in Tayside Regional Council Arts Action Team, a youth opportunities programme
whose purpose was to provide work experience for young people in the creation
of site specific artworks such as murals.
- Residencies
- 1984
Artist in residence, Crawford centre, University of St. Andrews Duties included
teaching life drawing and portrait painting, children's workshops and studio
open days.
- 1992
Artist in residence, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. Duties included school
visits and demonstrations in the Inverness area, and the production of a
large painting about life at the theatre.
