About

I was born in India in 1935 of Portuguese/British parents and was educated there and in England. The Portuguese members of my family were indigo planters and the British side were members of the armed forces.
My education really began at home, greatly influenced by my parents who had a wide range of interests. Our Mum cared for every single plant in our garden - even the weeds were tended and the insects got on with life; Dad, who was a musician, writer and artist, seemed to have an insatiable interest in everything. The sound of him playing anything from the blues to Beethoven in Stride piano is an abiding memory.
Our home was just a chaos of music, books and art - it was like living in a wild flower garden where everything was allowed to thrive.
My wife and I continue to pass on the delights and concerns about our world, to our family.
Read my Profile in an article written by Mike Sims and published in Printmaking Today. Printmaking Today, Spring 2018
Member of the Royal Watercolour Society
Member of the Royal Society of Painter/Printmakers (RE)
Hon Member of Ochre Print Studio
Exhibitions
A Selection
2020s
RWS and RE shows Bankside Gallery, London
Forartssake, Ealing
Axel Art, Bath
2010s
Royal Academy Summer Shows, London.
RWS and RE shows, Bankside Gallery, London
Ulsan Biennale, South Korea
Forartssake, Ealing.
Axel Art, Bath
Sino-UK Art Exchange, Bankside Gallery
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Australia
Globe Theatre, London
The London Print Fair, RA
Trélazé, France
Group of Ten, Bankside Gallery, London
The Harris Museum, Preston
10 years of the Regional Print Centre, Wrexham
Bite, Mall Galleries, London
Coombe Gallery, Devon
Turner & Thom, Eton
2000s
RE shows, Bankside Gallery, London
Impress ’09, Printmaking Festival, Stroud
Wrexham Print Internationals, Wrexham
Glasgow Print Gallery, Glasgow
Pump Gallery Dorking
Small Print/Big Impression, Leicester
International Triennial Print Exhibition, Prague
On-Line Gallery, Southampton
Medici Gallery London
Workplace Art, London
Gallery One, Barnes
Beatrice Royal, Southampton
Workplace Art, London
Mark Jason Fine Art. London
Gallery on the Green, London
Klim, New York Expo and Toronto
Beatrice Royal, Southampton
Gallery on the Green, London
Parkview Fine Paintings, Bristol
1990s
Royal Academy Summer Shows, London
Medici Gallery, London
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Beatrice Royal, Southampton
Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells
Lucy Simmonds, Hong Kong and LA Expo
Parkview Fine Paintings, Bristol
On-line Gallery, Southampton
The Original Print Gallery, Dublin
Lucy Simmonds, Hong Kong and LA Expo
Images 21 Tour of the UK
John Davies Fine Paintings, Stow-on-the-Wold
Kertesz Gallery, San Francisco
Wyckham Gallery, Stockbridge
Nancy Smillie, Glasgow
Prizes
The Trevor Frankland Award, RWS Show, Bankside Gallery 2020
RWS Exhibitions Prize, RWS Open Competition 2017
Sentinel Gallery Exhibitions Prize, RWS Open Competition 2017
RWS Patron’s Prize, RWS Open Competition. 2015
Centre for Fine Art Print Research UWE, RE Annual. 2008
The Hector Purchase Prize, RE Annual. 2008
The John Purcell Prize, Wrexham Print Bienalle, 2007
Collections
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Royal Watercolour Society
Bank of England, London
Guildford Borough Council
Jiangsu Art Museum, China
Selected Commissions
Felix Rosenstiel’s
London Contemporary Art
Greek Island Holidays
Stephen Bull Restaurant
Marks and Spencer
Whittards of Chelsea
Waitrose
Starbucks
Private commissions
