ABOUT ME
First things
Talking about myself and my work has always been difficult and very recently when I read a description of what Facebook means, it resonated in my mind.
Facebook
"Almanack wherein People do catalogue their Achievements for publick Consumption: thus a strutting Compendium of Peacockery."
From Dr Johnson's Dictionary Of Modern Life written by Tom Morton published by Random House.
And a Picasso quote: "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people have to understand. If only they would realise that above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world and no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please the world, though we can't explain them."
So here is my bit of strutting Peacockery.
Archival digital gloss print 70x50cms
CV
I was born in India in 1935 of Portuguese and English parents and educated in India and England. My family were indigo planters in north-east India,
Art Schools: Walthamstow School of Art and The London School of Printing where I was awarded the National Diploma in Design.
Council Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE).
One of my schools in India
Selected one man exhibitions
Thurner & Thom, Eton 2009
Pump Gallery, Dorking. 2008, 2006
Summers Art Gallery, Dorking. 2004
Beatrice Royal, Southampton. 2002
Nancy Smillie, Glasgow. 1993
Salome neon
Group Shows include:
Bankside Gallery RE shows, London. RE, London Print Fair. Artswipe, London. Ochre Print shows, Guildford. Wrexham Print Biennale. Coombe Gallery AAF, London. Glasgow Print Gallery. Ochre Print Shows, Guildford. On-line Gallery, Southampton. International Triennial, Prague. Mark Jason Fine Art, London. Royal Academy, London. Klim, New York Expo and Toronto. Lucy Simmons, Hong Kong. Arum Gallery, Frankfurt. Medici Gallery, London.
Decline and fall - after Duchamp
Prizes
The John Purcell Prize: Wrexham Print International Biennale 2007
The Hector Purchase Prize: RE Annual Exhibition 2008
Centre of Fine Art Print Research UWE Prize:RE Annual Exhibition 2008
IT'S MY LIFE TO LIVE Digital, screenprint and collage
Collections
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Bank of England, London
Guildford Borough Council, Guildford
Commissions from Felix Rosenstiel’s, London Contemporary Art, Greek Island Holidays, Stephen Bull Restaurant, Marks and Spencer, Whittard of Chelsea, WH Smith, Waitrose, Starbucks and a number of other public companies.
Print in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford