Education, exhibitions, commissions and employment; in the UK unless indicated otherwise
Education
1994 - 97
BA (Hons) in Art and Design, Sculpture with Photography, University of Wolverhampton
1991 - 93
BTEC National Diploma in General Art and Design at Suffolk College, Ipswich
1990
Matriculated from the South African College High School, Cape Town, RSA
Short Courses
2020
Marionette Carving Course, taught by John Roberts, The Little Angel Theatre, London
2018
'Bronze Intensive', The Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeenshire
2016
Art Marketing Course with Kathryn Roberts, London
Stop-motion Animation course at West Dean College, lead by Will Bishop-Stevens
2014
Children's Book Illustration, taught by April Wilson at Central St Martin's, London
The Expanded Field of Drawing, taught by Jim Hobbs, The Slade, London
2010
Etching, taught by Judy Woodborne, Cape Town, RSA
2009
Memorial Carving in slate at the Orton Trust, Kettering
Bookbinding, Belstead House, Ipswich
2004
Painting Summer School at The Slade (&: '03), London
Icon Painting in egg tempera at Turvey Abbey, Bedfordshire
2003
Tibetan iconography, taught by Andy Weber at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London
1991
'Botanical Illustration' and 'Life Drawing', Suffolk College, Ipswich
Galleries
Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
Prince Albert Gallery, Prince Albert, RSA
Solo Exhibitions and Artists' Fairs
2018
Cambridge Open Studios, St Barnabas Press, Cambridge
2017
Cambridge Open Studios, Cambridge
Ice House, Solo Exhibition, Holland Park, London
2016
Windsor Contemporary Art Fair, Windsor
The Other Art Fair, London
Cambridge Open Studios, Cambridge
2011
Cambridge Open Studios, Cambridge
Ice House, Solo Exhibition, Holland Park, London
Palace Art Fair, London
Windsor Contemporary Art Fair, Windsor
2010
Cape Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Cape Town, RSA
Ice House Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Holland Park, London
Untitled Artists Fair, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London
Battersea Contemporary Art Fair, London
2007
Cape Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Cape Town, RSA
2005
Cape Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Cape Town, RSA
Group Exhibitions
2020
'Home is Where the Heart Is', Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2019
'To Dream the Impossible', Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2018
Art and Design Pop-Up market, Glasgow Buddhist Centre, Glasgow
'Surface and Interface', Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2017
Osman's Xmas Bazaar, Studio1.1, London
St Barnabas Winter Show, Cambridge
Mill Road Art Fair, Cambridge
The Woodyard Group Christmas Open Studios, Cambridge
Chill#2 Cafe and Bar, Cambridge
Dream Now, Dream Not, Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2016
The Fry Gallery, The Annual Exhibition and Sale, Saffron Walden, Essex
2014
'Threshold', Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2013
'Invocation', Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2012
'Turn Around Time', Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2011
Friends of Holland Park Art Exhibition, London
United Society of Artists 'Annual Open Exhibition 2011', Menier Gallery, London
'Continuum', Cape Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
'Periphery', joint show with Jevan Watkins Jones at the Peppermint SHED, Sproughton, Ipswich
'Red Brick Art Auction', Red Brick Center for the Arts, Aspen, Colorado, USA
2010
'Print', an exhibition of etchings, These Four Walls Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
'Mini-Me', Association for the Visual Arts, Cape Town, RSA
United Society of Artists 'Annual Open Exhibition 2010', Menier Gallery, London. I was elected to be a member of the society and shown in 2009
2009
'Kaleidoscope Dreams', Red Brick Center for the Arts, Aspen, USA
'Suffolk Show Case 2009', selected by Grenville Davey and Lotte Juul Petersen; Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
'Ipswich Art Society Annual Exhibition' (&: '09, 03', '02, '01, '00, '95, '94)
Showed sculpture at The Woody Creek Gallery (closed 2010), Woody Creek, nr Aspen, USA
2008
Carved 'Lorelei', black chlorite stone carving for The Aspen Gallery at Highlands, Aspen USA
2007
Showed paintings at the Aspen Gallery at Highlands (closed 2009) and then represented by the Mitchell Gallery and shown in Pinons Restaurant and Aspen Club and Spa, Aspen, USA
'Boys Toys', The Art House, Westbourne, Hampshire
Showed sculpture at the Eyestorm Gallery (closed 2010), Ipswich
2006
'Adam and Eve Show', The New Art Centre, Chatham, Kent
'The Doll, My Doll, My Moll', The Art House, Westbourne
2005
'Field Exhibition', The Code Gallery, Bristol
'Summer Open 2005', The Waterloo Gallery, London
'Paper, Pen', The Art House, Westbourne, Hampshire
2004
'Postcard Show', Surface Gallery, Nottingham (& '02)
'The A6 Show 2001', Lewisham Arthouse Gallery, London (& '01)
2003
'19th Annual Open Exhibition', Café Gallery Projects, London
'Roaring Fork Open', Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA
'Diving Deep', Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham
2002
London Buddhist Arts Convention, Bethnal Green, London (&: '01, '00)
2001
'Sculpture Festival/Sculpture Trail 2001', Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester
Ipswich Art Society Exhibition of Friends 2D Work, Ancient House, Ipswich
Showed sculpture at Primavera, Cambridge
Showed sculpture at Peterborough Arthouse, Peterborough
1998
'On the Border' selected by Mark Wallinger and Grif Rhys-Jones, Firstsite at the Minories, Colchester
1997
'Looking', exhibition of photography, Wolverhampton Unversity's gallery, Wolverhampton
1996
'Nice', sculpture exhibition in a vacant shop, Woverhampton
1995
'The Ipswich Open', selected by Maggie Hambling and George Melly, The Wolsey Gallery, Christchuch Mansion, Ipswich
1994
The Waterlily Foundation, Cambridge
'The Art Show' at Alexandra Palace, London
Selected Collections/Collectors except commissions
Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, RSA
La Creuzette, Boussac, France
Selected Commissions
2015
'Dawn's First Breath', painting shipped to Boston, Us
'Over the Wall', painting for home in London
2013
'To the Cedars and Beyond', painting for a home in Cheltenham
2009
'Rhine Nymph', limestone carving for a balcony in Switzerland
2006
Contracted to replace 7,6m of 'Aaron's Rod' wood carving for a Mock Tudor building in Ipswich Town centre
'War Hare', yew wood wall piece for a home near London
'Magdalena', serpentine stone carving for a garden in Dusseldorf, Germany
Aspens II and Verlorenvlei II, paintings shipped to Boston, US
2005
'Four Guardian Kings and Wheel and Deer Architrave', carved in chestnut wood and then painted, for the entrance to the shrine room at The Ipswich Buddhist Centre, Ipswich
Portrait of Swami Rama Tirtha in bronze , RSA
'Houses of Parliament' and 'Notting Hill', two paintings for a flat in London
2004
Stupa Styled Donations Bowl, assembled and carved in tulip wood, for The Ipswich Buddhist Centre
'Lovers', two jelutong wood carvings, and 'Oilseed Rape Fields', oil painting, for a games room house extension, Dusseldorf, Germany
'Listening Woman III', woodcarving, for flat in Switzerland
2003
'Listening Woman IV' (woodcarving)
'Horse's Head', woodcarving for niche in home, Ipswich
1999
Reclining Buddha for Buddhist festival, Cambridge Buddhist Centre, Cambridge
'At Dawn II', woodcarving for office, London
'Magpies', woodcarving for garden, Ipswich
1995
Stupa Woman, wood and lead sculpture for the Ipswich Buddhist Community's garden, Ipswich
1994
Figurative wood carvings for the garden of the Thomas Wolsey Special School, Ipswich
Work as an Assistant
2006-2009
Louis Jansen van Vuuren (artist) for a short period each year with: his work in collaboration with the photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa which was shown at I-Art Gallery (Cape Town) and Everard Read Gallery (Johannesburg); two other solo shows, a painting course and sculpture restoration; at his studio in Boussac, France
1997
Nick Lloyd (sculptor) with the roughing out of: 'There and Back Again' and 'Round the Wrekin', two abstract public stone carvings for Wolverhampton Bus Station, Wolverhampton
1994
Bernard Reynolds (sculptor) in Ipswich, making a bronze public sculpture, based on a parrot skull, called 'Rubio', for Norwich, as well as exhibition work, UK
1993
Deirdre Saunder (artist) with painting furniture and a relief mural for one of her clients in Washington DC, USA
Work/Volunteering in the UK
2018-
Dhanakosa Retreat Centre: customer services and bookkeeping
2015-2018
Self employed artist at St Barnabas Press, Cambridge
Voluntary work:
Wildlife Trust of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire: data entry, mail out and helped with various office based projects such as a photography competition, posters and leaflets, correspondence.
Cambridge Open Studios: website liaison
Cambridgeshire Geological Society: treasurer
2012-2014
Lived and worked at Dhanakosa Buddhist Retreat Centre in Scotland. My work included bookkeeping, reception/customer services, maintenance (plumbing, decorating and gardening etc.). I also helped with projects, research and preparation, the main one was the installation of a biomass boiler.
While at Dhanakosa I supported and helped organize a number of the Photography and Meditation Retreats (usually two a year) and have continued to do so since leaving. I have also supported Meditation and Hillwalking and Meditation Retreats.
2011
Did a six week door knocking appeal in London for the Karuna Trust, a charity working with the 'untouchable' community in India.
1994-2009
Worked for Windhorse Trading Ltd: Ipswich Evolution Gift Shop (1994-2009) part time and casually; at the head office in Cambridge (1997-1999) full time, doing warehouse work, admin and customer services and Hammersmith (London) Evolution Gift Shop (2003/2004) full time where I was the merchandising manager.
I have also helped out at Triratna Buddhist Community classes, participated in their study programmes and written for Urthona, their arts magazine, on Chris Drury and Tate Modern.
1995-2003
Volunteered and worked casually for Christchurch Mansion and Ipswich Museum as a Museum Assistant, assisting in security, conservation and exhibition work; Ipswich.
1999-2001
Helped Suffolk Interfaith Resource by manning reception, I also gave a talk on Buddhist art and wrote an essay entitled 'Buddhism Through Its Arts' for a religious studies course.