I was born in Jersey, Channel Islands in 1942 of English parents who had chosen to live there. I had an inspiring art teacher at Victoria College and with the help of a Societe Jersiaise Art Scholarship studied for 4yrs at the West of England College of Art, Bristol, before moving to the University of London Institute of Education and then on to a study-travel programme in Canada and the USA. I am a fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Now in my mid 60’s, I need to explain that much of my working life (27yrs of it in the Highlands of Scotland), has been spent working in education, the visual arts, as teacher, lecturer and institutional leader, together with an excursion into the management of vocational training, leading to project management work of various kinds associated with the development of what is now know as UHI Millennium Institute (www.uhi.ac.uk). This higher education institution is expected to be granted university title in the near future, becoming the long awaited University of the Highlands and Islands.
My catalogue of exhibition and commissioned works is quite modest; I have shown somewhere every decade from the “Young Contemporaries” London, in 1960, “Art in Cambridge” in 1965; the University of Sussex in 1975 and ’76; Artspace, Aberdeen in 1981, the Royal West of England Academy in 1989; the Highland Open in 1990, the Royal Scottish Academy in 1990 and 1992, the Highland Festival in 1996; the Jersey Art Centre in 2005.
I participated in Highland Open Studios in 2007 and am doing so again from 31st May to 8th June in 2008.
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