Born

1963 Kenya

Education

2011 PhD, Shadow into Parent Light; Beyond Pembrokeshire, Beyond Landscape.

1987 Postgraduate Painting, Slade School of Art, University College London.

1985 First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art, UWIC, Cardiff.

1982 Foundation Studies, UWIC, Cardiff.

Awards

2020 Artist in Residence, Earthskin, New Zealand.

2014 Creative Wales Arts Council Major Award to research new materials including ceramics and glass at the National Glass Centre, University of Sunderland.

2008-09 First Artist in Residence, Oriel y Parc, Landscape Gallery, St Davids.

2007 The Richard and Rosemary Wakelin Purchase Award, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

2005 Innovation Award, The Big Draw, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown.

Wales Arts International Funding travel award, Venice Biennale.

2004 Wales Arts International to participate in VII Xuntanza Obradoiro Internacional das Plasticas, A Solaina Pilono, Galicia, Spain.

2003 Welsh Artist of the Year.

2001 Arts Council of Wales grant to participate in ‘Different Lights, UKwithNY, Angel Orensanz Arts Centre, New York.

2000 Welsh Artist of the Year.

1999 University of Glamorgan Purchase Prize.

1998 Gold Medal in Fine Art, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bro Ogwr, Bridgend.

1997 Friedrich Konekamp award for painting.

1993 Gold Medal in Fine Art, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells.

1992 Welsh Arts Council Travel Scholarship, New York, USA.

1991 Artist in Residence Llanfrechfa Grange Mental Health Unit, Cwmbran.

1989 Welsh Arts Council Travel Scholorship, Florence, Italy.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 ‘The Space Between’ Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St Helena & Montecito.

2024 Horizon Light, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St Helena & Montecito, California.

2023 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St Helena, California.

2022 Aotearoa – A Brighter Light. Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2021 Caldwell Snyder, St Helena, California.
Artis Gallery Summer Show, Auckland, New Zealand.
Auckland Art Fair, Artis Gallery, New Zealand.

2019 'Edging West' New Paintings and Ceramics, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London.

New Paintings, Rosenberg & Co, New York.

2018 Recent Paintings, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh. In collaboration with

Osborne Samuel Gallery, London.

2016 ‘Flow & Pulse’, Painting, drawing and ceramic, Rosenberg & Co.

New York.

‘Ooze’, New Ceramics, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff.

2015 Gesture | Glimpse | Memory, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London.

2014 ‘Pulse’, Oriel Myldan, Cardigan.

2012 ‘Glimpse’, St Davids Hall, Cardiff.

‘Glimpse’, National Botanical Gardens of Wales, Carmarthenshire.

2011 Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff.

One-man show, Oriel Ynys Mon, Anglesey.

‘Shimmer’, Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen.

2009-10 ‘Influere’, Oriel y Parc, Landscape Gallery St Davids. Curation of works from the residence alongside significant inspiration from the collections at National Museum of Art Wales.

2009 ‘Tidal’, Oriel Clwyd, Mold.

‘New works’, Atrium, University of South Wales Cardiff.

2008 Oriel Q Gallery Narberth.

‘Tidal’, Kettering Museum & Art Gallery, Kettering.

‘Liquid Light Series’, Cynon Valley Museum & Art Gallery.

‘In View’, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. Works selected by David Alston from the National Museum of Art Wales permanent collection.

2007 New Works, Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran.

2006 ‘Spindrift’, Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff.

2005 ‘Tidal’ Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown.

‘The Taste of Sight’, Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff.

2004 Price Waterhouse Coopers, Cardiff.

2003 ‘Not the Stillness…’ Newport Museum and Art Gallery.

‘Not the Stillness…’ Oriel Clwyd, Mold.

‘Not the Stillness…’ selected works, Rhondda Heritage Park.

‘Not the Stillness…’ National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

1999 Museum of Modern Art Wales, Mychynlleth.

‘As Well as being…’ National Museum of Art Wales, Turner House Gallery.

1995 Wyeside Arts Centre, Builth Wells.

1992 Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Cwmbran.

1991 ‘The Florentine Experience’, The Powerhouse Gallery, Laugharne.

Selected Public And Private Collections

National Museum and Galleries of Wales, (Derek Williams Collection.) • A Fundacion Casa Museo “A Solaina” de Pilono, Galicia, Spain. • Contemporary Art Society of Wales. • Contemporary Art Society of Britain (Tom Bendhem Bequest). • University of South Wales. • Owen Taylor, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary British Art, Warwick. • Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea • Associated Newspapers for Museums Collection. • Leicestershire Education Authority. • Wyn Thomas Gordon Lewis Architects, Cardiff. • South Glamorgan County Council Collection. • Oriel y Parc, St Davids, National Museum Wales & National Parks Authority. • Celtic Manor Hotel & Conference Centre, Newport. • Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre, Wales. • St German’s Church and Rectory, Cardiff.

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