BIO
BORN London, 1947
STUDIED
1972-73 Abbey Major Scholarship to Rome
1969-72 Royal College of Art, London
1965-69 Gloucestershire College of Art, Cheltenham.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Winter Open Exhibition, MADE Gallery, Cardiff
2023 Ein Cymru Blackwater Gallery, Cardiff
2022 Exploring the Overlooked (with Geoff Davies, David Brook)
at West Wharf Gallery, Cardiff
2021 Artbox.Project, Barcelona 1.0
Figurative Art Now
2020 Wales Contemporary, Milford Haven
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Artbox.Gallery, Zurich
Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff
2019 “Paper Exchange” Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff
“Open Books”, Art Central, Barry
Teahouse, Cardiff (Solo exhibition)
Wales Contemporary, Milford Haven, London
Artbox.Projects, SwissArt Expo, Zurich
Artbox.Project, Miami 2.0
2018 Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
Boundary Art, Cardiff
2017 Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition, London
London Group Open
“Open Books”, Chu Griffis Asian Art Gallery,
Connecticut College, USA
“Open Books”, Rajasthan State Academy of Art,
“Open Books”, Ravendra Mavich Art Gallery Jaipur, India
2016 Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
Discerning Eye Triforium Exhibition, London
Discerning Eye 2016, London
Art Gemini, London
“By Invitation” Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy
2015 Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
Teahouse, Cardiff (Solo exhibition)
Cardiff Business Technology Centre, (Solo exhibition)
“Still Life Ambiguous Practises”, Aberystwyth University
“Still Life”, the Art Stable Gallery, Dorset
2014 Art Gemini, London (highly commended)
Lumen Prize Exhibition, London, Hong Kong, Athens
“Open Books”, China, Australia,
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Hay Hill Gallery, London
“All Coherence Gone”, BayArt Gallery, Cardiff
2013 Cork Street Open Exhibition, London
Affordable Art Fair, London
“Open Books”, BayArt Gallery, Cardiff, Hangzhou, China
Lumen Prize Exhibition, Cardiff, New York
Welsh Artist of the Year, St Davids Hall, Cardiff
Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
2012 DRAWING MMX2 , Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
“Open Books”, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Royal West of England Academy, Autumn Exhibition
2011 Hay Hill Gallery, London (Solo exhibition)
Artworkhouse Gallery, Abergavenny (Solo exhibition)
Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
2010 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
The Discerning Eye, London
“Real” , London
Teahouse, Cardiff (Solo exhibition)
Kooywood Gallery, Cardiff
2009 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
The Discerning Eye, London
2008 The Discerning Eye, London
2007 The Discerning Eye, London
2006 Campden Gallery , Chipping Campden
The Discerning Eye, London
2005 Bay Art , Cardiff (two person show with Carol Hiles)
Adam Gallery, Penarth (Solo exhibition)
The Discerning Eye, London
(Wales Regional Prize Winner)
2004 The Discerning Eye, London
(Humphries Purchase Prize Winner)
C2 Gallery
Mission Gallery, Swansea
2003 Adam Gallery, Penarth (Solo exhibition)
Bay Art, Cardiff
2002 The Affordable Art Fair, London
The Discerning Eye, London
1998 Atrium Bookshop, London (Solo exhibition)
The Art Movement at Oxo Tower
Cardiff Bay Arts Trust
1996 Oriel Gallery, London (Solo exhibition)
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
1995 Laing Landscape Painting Competition,
Cardiff and London
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Blue Gallery, London
Thompson's Gallery, London
1994 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
Libramont Art Fair, Belgium (with 56 Group Wales)
1991 Black Bull Gallery, London (Solo exhibition)
Y Bont Gallery, xv(Solo exhibition)
1989 St David’s Hall, Cardiff (Solo exhibition)
1985 Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (Solo exhibition)
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery Solo exhibition)
Y Bont Gallery, Treforrest (Solo exhibition)
1983 St David’s Hall, Cardiff (Solo exhibition)
1982 Summer Show 1, Serpentine Gallery, London
Sainsburys “Images for Today”
1980 Spirit of London, Whitechapel Open
1978 Midland Group, Nottingham
PUBLICATIONS:
2020 “How I paint Trees, Why I paint Trees”
video sponsored by the Contemporary Art Society for
Wales at: https://youtu.be/jDybZDwerSE
2017 (July) The Artist pp. 12-15
2015 "Still Life Ambiguous Practises" Frances Woodley
2014 "All Coherence Gone" Frances Woodley
2012 "Open Books"