Biography

 

Solo Exhibitions

1990 Smiths Gallery, London

1992 Hyde Park Gallery, London

1993 Embargo, London

1999 Adoration of the Sea, Old Lifeboat Station, Cornwall

2001 New Work, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall

2002 Adoration of the Sea, Bournemouth Central Library, permanent display

2004 Drawings, Sketches and Studies, Russell-Cotes Art

Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth

       Desideratum: Recent Paintings, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro

       Triptych, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh

2005 Drawings, Sketches and Studies, Edgcumbe House, Torpoint, Devon

2006 Still Life, C-Bat Gallery, Cardiff 

2008 Desideratum, Liverpool Cathedral, European Capital of Culture, Liverpool

       Desideratum, St Mary-le-Bow Church, Cheapside, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1992 Brian Sewell’s A Critic’s Choice, Cooling Gallery, London

1993 Hunting/Observer Awards, Mall Galleries, London and tour

       The Spectator Awards, Christie's, London

       Bearnes, Torquay, Devon

1994 Return to Beauty, Roy Miles Gallery, London

1995 Bayer Art Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

1999 British Art, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall

2000 Garrick Milne Prize, Christie's, London

2001 Hunting Art Prizes, RCA, London

       Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

       Group Exhibition, Kunst Verket Galleri, Oslo, Norway

      Moscow Art Fair, Moscow, Russia

2002 Hunting Art Prizes, RCA, London

2003 Curwen Prints, Curwen Gallery, London 

2004 Hunting Art Prizes (Tour), The Gallery at Trebah, Cornwall

       Holburne Contemporary Portrait Prize, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath 

       London Art Fair

2006 Object & Still Life, Artonomy Fine Art, Cornwall

       Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, London

       Holburne Dukes Portrait Prize, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath 

2007 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London 

       New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London

       A Fine Line, Artonomy Fine Art, Cornwall

2008 Threadneedle Figurative Prize, Mall Galleries, London (Shortlisted)

       Art London, Chelsea Pensioners’ Appeal, London

2009 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London 

Painting Awards

1995 Highly Commended, Bayer Art Prize

2001 First Prize, Hunting Art Prizes

2008 Threadneedle Figurative Prize, shortlist

Collections

British Museum

Bournemouth Central Public Library

Bluestone Design, Plymouth

Hunting PLC, London

Private Collections in Europe and the USA

Major Series of Work

1998-2004 Desideratum

1994-1999 Adoration of the Sea

Selected Bibliography

1995 Daily Telegraph:  Tim Lusher

2001 Art Review:  Charlotte Mullins (February)

       London Evening Standard: Brian Sewell (1 June)

2003 Daily Telegraph:  Optical Allusions, Sebastian Smee (29 July)

2004 New York Times:  Sarah Boxer (26 August)

2005 Hunting Art Prizes 25th Anniversary Catalogue:  William Packer

2006 National Gallery, London:  Lecture, David G Stork "Were optical projections used in early        Renaissance painting?"

2008 Liverpool Daily Post:  From Cornwall's Coast to Liverpool Cathedral,

       Philip Key (11 January)

   Williams surfing Fistral, his local break, 2007

   [photo © Geoff Tydeman]