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  • The Seventh Circle
    Venue: The Cubby Hole
    204 Wistaston Road, Crewe, Cheshire, CW2 7RJ.
    Date: 14th June to 7th July 2013.
    My first major solo exhibition this year featuring lots of my latest works, often those too complex or delicate to show at other venues.
  • neo:artprize 2013
    Venue: neo:gallery22
    The Market Place, Bolton, BL1 2A.
    Date: 13th June to 28th July 2013.
    An international art prize which is showing my Richard Dadd cabinet throughout June and July.
  • Handel's Court
    Venue: Handel's Court Gallery
    120 Nothgate Street, Chester, CH1 2HT.
    Date: Ongoing...
    You can view and buy some of my works at this artist run gallery.
Coming Soon...
  • Dreams Of Perfection
    Venue: Festival Drayton Centre
    Frogmore Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3AX.
    Date: 24th June to 22nd July 2013.
    A large solo exhibition containing a mix of works from my earliest paintings and prints to my latest.
  • Jobling Gowler Art Competition 2013
    Venue: Jobling Gowler Solicitors
    250 Park Lane, Macclesfield, Cheshire, SK11 8AD.
    Date: 5th July to September 2013.
    A biennial competition held by the enthusiastic solicitors Jobling Gowler, the theme is Labryinth. I have one work here, expect a mix of styles and interpretations from the others.
  • Python Arts Festival 2013
    Venue: The Gallery At Bank Quay House
    Sankey Street, Warrington, WA1 1NN.
    Date: 20th July to 3rd August 2013.
    An open exhibition as part of the Python Festival. One of my paintings will be on show.
  • R.B.S.A. Portrait Prize 2013
    Venue: R.B.S.A. Gallery
    4 Brook Street, St. Paul's, Birmingham, B3 1SA.
    Date: 17th July to 24 August 2013.
    The R.B.S.A. annual prize exhibition, this year with a portrait theme. It will include one of my works.
Artworks In Permanent Collections
  • The Grosvenor Museum
    Grosvenor Street, Chester.
    G140D Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone
Awards
  • 2013: The Grosvenor Museum's 10th Open Art Exhibition (1st Prize).
    G427 The Paranoid Schizophrenia of Richard Dadd
  • 2012: Three Counties Open 2012 (The Barracks Trust Award).
    G424A Tiger Moving Nowhere At All
  • 2011: Art Support Summer Competition 2011 (1st prize).
    G265A Summer Bee
  • 2011: Jobling Gowler Art Competition 2011 (highly commended).
    G255A Colours Of Cheshire
  • 2009: Jobling Gowler Art Competition 2009 (highly commended).
    G165A The Silkworm
  • 2009: The Grosvenor Museum's 8th Open Art Exhibition (highly commended).
    G140D Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone
  • 2008: Three Counties Open Art Exhibition (highly commended).
    G140D Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone
  • 2008: UK Songwriting Contest (highly commended).
    N250A Like a Ragdoll Falls
  • 2008: Art Support Summer Competition 2008 (1st prize).
    G137A Self Portrait With Electric Wasp
  • 2007: Three Counties Open Art Exhibition (highly commended).
    G107A Bye Bye Little Fishes, and thank you
  • 2007: UK Songwriting Contest (semi-finalist).
    N253A One Day
  • 2006: Platform For Art: Thin Cities (finalist).
    G92A Station of the Future
  • 2006: Wells Festival of Literature: International Poetry Competition 2006 (shortlisted).
    M307A The Art Of Painting
  • 2006: Migraine Action Association Open Art Competition (1st prize).
    G81A The Migraine Tree
Juried Exhibitions
  • Cheshire Open Studios Central Exhibition 2013
    G532A The Bully
    G534A Insomnia Due To Impending Sacrifice
    G113A Charlie Chaplin Disappointed At Not Being Able To Stop Global Fascism
    G543A Self Portrait As Philosopher
  • The Grosvenor Museum's 10th Open Art Exhibition
    G427 The Paranoid Schizophrenia of Richard Dadd
  • RBSA Open All Media March 2013
    G424A Tiger Moving Nowhere At All
  • The Electric Open 2013
    G529A An Octopus Finally Killing A Lighthouse Which Is Assumpted Into An Angel
    G428A Portrait Of Grayson Perry As A Fascinated Scarecrow
    G531A A Sad Memory
  • Three Counties Open 2012
    G424A Tiger Moving Nowhere At All
    G523A White Rabbit
  • Warrington Contemporary Open 2012
    G425A God Being Killed By Theists And Atheists
    G420A Triumph Of The Mechanauts
  • Thurrock International Film Festival 2012
    V10 China Syndrome
  • 2012: Feeling The Pressure
    G116A Domination of the Fishes
  • 2011: Three Counties Open Art Exhibition
    G274A Escape
  • 2011: Jobling Gowler Art Competition 2011
    G255A Colours Of Cheshire
  • 2011: Tabernacle Art Competition 2011
    G194A The Transmittance Of Pity Falsely Perceived As Love Through A One-Way Mirror
  • 2011: The Grosvenor Museum's 9th Open Art Exhibition
    G225A Abandoning Someone Who Was A Friend To Me When I Had None
  • 2011: R.B.S.A. Open All Media Exhibition
    G90A Genesis of Terror
  • 2011: Full Circle
    G186A The Death By Explosion Of Moons And Keyholes
  • 2010: R.B.S.A. Open All Media Exhibition
    G215A The Death Of Man
    G222A The Elements
    G114A The Time For Love Has Nearly Flown
  • 2010: Tabernacle Art Competition.
    G220 Remembering Summer
  • 2010: R.B.S.A. Prize Exhibition.
    G194A The Transmittance Of Pity Falsely Perceived As Love Through A One-Way Mirror
  • 2010: Waterside Open 2010.
    G112A Reaching For An Untouchable Strawberry
  • 2010: R.B.S.A. Spring Open.
    G91A Penalties
  • 2009: Sue Ryder Care's Art Liberating Lives.
    G186A The Death By Explosion Of Moons And Keyholes
  • 2009: R.B.S.A. Open All Media Exhibition.
    G140D Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone
  • 2009: Three Counties Open Art Exhibition.
    G147A Sunset With Rose Petals
  • 2009: Tabernacle Art Competition.
    G173A Rubaiyat Thirty Five: Perfection And Necroamoria
  • 2009: West Lancashire Open Exhibition 2009.
    G112A Reaching For An Untouchable Strawberry
  • 2009: Jobling Gowler Art Competition.
    G165A The Silkworm
  • 2009: The Grosvenor Museum's 8th Open Art Exhibition.
    G140D Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone
  • 2008: Urenco Exhibition 2008.
    G154B Uranos and Helios
  • 2008: Sue Ryder Care's Art Liberating Lives.
    G150A Insecurity Grasping For Freedom
  • 2008: Three Counties Open Art Exhibition.
    G128A The Art of Painting
    G140D Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone
  • 2008: Open 08 Art Exhibition.
    G137A Self Portrait With Electric Wasp
  • 2008: R.B.S.A. Open Portrait Award.
    G113A Charlie Chaplin Disappointed At Not Being Able To Stop Global Fascism
  • 2007: Three Counties Open Art Exhibition.
    G107A Bye Bye Little Fishes, and thank you
  • 2007: Whittingham Riddell Shrewsbury International Open Art Exhibition 2007.
    G88A Crying Invader (This Doesn't Happen)
  • 2006: One Love: The Football Art Prize.
    G91A Penalties
  • 2006: Migraine Action Association Art Exhibition.
    G81A The Migraine Tree
Group Exhibitions
  • 2013: Visual Arts Cheshire 20x20
    G545A Richard Carpenter
  • 2013: Castle Park Affordiable Art Sale
    G333A I Want To Be A Windmill
    G530A Imaginary Flight Of The Victorius Narcissist
    G427A-B3 The Paranoid Schizophrenia of Richard Dadd
  • 2011-2013: The Lyceum Centenary Commemoration
    G269 The Resurrection Of The Lyceum In 1911
  • 2012: Celebrating The Diversity Again
    G274A Escape
    G279D The Love Reliquary
    G426A Fin De Siécle
    P24A Electricity Being Discovered
  • 2012: Forms And Thought
    G271A The Invisible Woman
    G232A The Starcrossed Escape Of The Psychological Cosmonaut
    G175A The Hanging Of Judas Iscariot
    G179A The Bombing Of Dresden
    G180C Money Just Running Out
    G251A Annunciation
    G157A Three Graves
    G73A Faces of Autumn
    G91A Penalties
  • 2012: Bickerton Art Exhibition
    G221A Cat Lost In The Grass
    G268A Lost In The Colours Of Cheshire
    G400A The Fragile Rose
    G217A Wax Cataclysm Of Phoenixes And Unphoenixes
  • 2012: Postcard Art Show.
    G406 Barn Owl
    G410 Rhacophorus And Clown Loach
    G411 Puffin
    G416 Masked Lovebird
    G417 Pine Marten
  • 2012: Marbury Merry Days.
    G221A Cat Lost In The Grass
  • 2012: Art Support Market Drayton Exhibition.
    G197 Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G265A-B3 Summer Bee
  • 2012: Jobling Gowler Winners Exhibition 2012.
    G274A Escape
    G216A The Infinite Tiredness Of Ageing
    G266A I Feel Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing
    G259A Ordovician Landscape
  • 2011: Celebrating The Diversity.
    G225A Abandoning Someone Who Was A Friend To Me When I Had None
    G176A The Glorious Birth Of Summer
    G265A Summer Bee
    G222A The Elements
  • 2011: ArtsFest.
    G268A Lost In The Colours Of Cheshire
  • 2011: Bickerton Summer Art Exhibition 2011.
    G260A Portrait Of Marion Davies
    G186A The Death By Explosion Of Moons And Keyholes
    G221A-B3 Cat Lost In The Grass
    G162A-B1 The Quest For Physical Intimacy In A Loveless Relationship
  • 2011: Dorothy Clive.
    G130A Spear of Destiny
  • 2011: Midas Exhibition 2011.
    G135A-B1 Idiotic Gardener Cheerily Planting Flowers on the Moon
    G166A Nine Ladies Weeping At The Death Of A Phoenix
  • 2011: Marbuy Merry Days
    G260 Portrait Of Marion Davies
  • 2011: The Art Support Cubby Hole Exhibition.
    G221A Cat Lost In The Grass
    G244A Alien Christmas
  • 2010: Art For Shelter Animals Project.
    G221A Cat Lost In The Grass
  • 2010: The Oneiric Image.
    G112A Reaching For An Untouchable Strawberry
    G171A Desparately Looking For Miro
    G209A Hell Is Having Nothing To Do But Wait For The Conclusion Of An Inevitable Journey
    G218A Self Portrait As Dreamer
    G219A Self Portrait As Dream
  • 2010: Richmond Village.
    G180A Money Just Running Out
    G184A Clinging On
  • 2010: Bickerton Summer Art Exhibition 2010.
    G103A A Tower Of Bees Hit By Forces Beyond Their Control
    G164A Chick Inside An Egg Dreaming Of The Sky
    G193A Flower Of Awe
    G175A The Hanging Of Judas Iscariot
  • 2010: Picture This...
    G120A Monsters Of Spring
    G135A Idiotic Gardener Cheerily Planting Flowers on the Moon
  • 2010: Marbury Merry Days.
    G159A Female God
    G193A Flower Of Awe
  • 2010: Jobling Gowler Winter Exhibition.
    G74A Coma
    G90A Genesis of Terror
    G99A Portrait of Kate Bush as a Winter Tree
    G109A The Last Days Of Rapa Nui
    G120A Monsters Of Spring
  • 2010: Picture This...
    G74A Coma
    G125A So, It Has Come To This
    G189A Castles Of The Mind
    G191A Christmas Is About Presents
  • 2010: Does Size Really Matter.
    G106 Roar of the Pollution Godzilla
    G116 Domination of the Fishes
    G150 Insecurity Grasping For Freedom
  • 2010: Art Support Nantwich Bookshop Exhibition.
    G135A Idiotic Gardener Cheerily Planting Flowers On The Moon
    G142A Alain The Sad Bathysphere
  • 2009: Art Support Winsford Exhibition.
    G123A No Good Ideas
  • 2009: Zeitgeist Exhibition.
    G180C Money Just Running Out
    G68A Yet More Ends Are Even
    G125A So, It Has Come To This
    G130A Spear of Destiny
  • 2009: 111 Exhibition.
    G180A Money Just Running Out
    G71A Portrait of Jean Harlow
    G142A Alain The Sad Bathysphere
    G97A Waiting For B.T.
    G148A Sun On A Chain
  • 2009: Cheshire Open Exhibition.
    G91A Penalties
    G105A half a broken heart
    G172A There's A Lot To Be Said For Hormones
    G135A Idiotic Gardener Cheerily Planting Flowers on the Moon
  • 2009: Bickerton Summer Art Exhibition 2009.
    G133A Starving Scarecrow Having The Last Of His Corn Taken By Crows
    G143A Light At The End Of A Long Dark Tunnel
    G160A The Chasm Was Too Wide
    G162A The Quest For Physical Intimacy In A Loveless Relationship
    G125A So, It Has Come To This
  • 2009: Art Support Annual Exhibition.
    G101A The Execution of King Charles I
    G149A 31st Century Crucifixion
    G138A Starving Scarecrow Having The Last Of His Corn Taken By Crows
  • 2009: Marbury Merry Days.
    G168A Portrait of Anna Q Nilsson
    G170A The Landscape Of Anna Q. Nilsson
  • 2008: Bickerton Summer Art Exhibition 2008.
    G120A Monsters Of Spring
    G116A Domination of the Fishes
    G117A Eye Among The Pears
    G112A Reaching For An Untouchable Strawberry
    G128A The Art of Painting
  • 2008: Art Support Annual Exhibition.
    G130A Spear of Destiny
    G109A The Last Days of Rapa Nui
  • 2008: Glory of God's Creation.
    G107A Bye Bye Little Fishes, and thank you
    G131A Rhino
  • 2008: Bunbury Summer Art Exhibition.
    G124A America And Iran 2007
    G95A Strike Dynamics
    G111A Perseus And The Burning Tree
    G102A Portrait of Marlene Dietrich as a Waterfall
  • 2008: Marbury Merry Days.
    G98A Memory Of My 34th Birthday
    G126A Mary Brian Twenty Years On
  • 2007: Bickerton Summer Art Exhibition 2007.
    G74A Coma
    G81A The Migraine Tree
    G105A Half a Broken Heart
    G109A The Last Days of Rapa Nui
    G90A Genesis of Terror
  • 2007: Nantwich Book Shop Coffee Lounge.
    G99A Portrait of Kate Bush as a Winter Tree
    G105A Half a Broken Heart
  • 2007: Minshull Vernon May Day Weekend.
    G98A Memory Of My 34th Birthday
Solo Exhibitions
  • 2012: Daydreams: Psychology and Automatism
    G116A-B1 Domination Of The Fishes
    G217A-B1 Wax Cataclysm Of Phoenixes And Unphoenixes
    G162A-B1 The Quest For Physical Intimacy In A Loveless Relationship
    G179A-B1 The Bombing Of Dresden
    G138A-B2 Starving Scarecrow Having The Last Of His Corn Taken By Crows
    G255A-B1 The Colours Of Cheshire
    G112A-B2 Reaching for an Untouchable Strawberry
    G77A Chiaroscuro Self Portrait
    G274A Escape
    G88A Crying Invader
    G123A No Good Ideas
    G244A Alien Christmas
    G221A Cat Lost In The Grass
    G253A The End Of The Affair
    G240A-A1 The Twelve Seasons
    G197A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G333A I Want To Be A Windmill
    G302A The Artist Garden
    G406A Barn Owl
  • 2012: Illicit Beauty
    G424A Tiger Moving Nowhere At All
    G271A The Invisible Woman
    G420A Triumph Of The Mechanauts
    G172A There's A Lot To Be Said For Hormones
    G179A-B The Bombing Of Dresden
    G222A The Elements
    G261A Five Thousand Years Of Tears
    G224A Christ In The Garden Of Gethsemane
    G419A Orchibee
  • 2012: Mindscapes
    G193A Flower Of Awe
    G224A Christ In The Garden Of Gethsemane
    G266A I Feel Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing
    G275A Love Without Sex
    G90A Genesis of Terror
    G103A A Tower Of Bees Hit By Forces Beyond Their Control
    G171A Desparately Looking For Miro
    G263A Bird Orbiting A Black Hole
    G265A-B3 Summer Bee
    G187A-B1 The First Grasp Of Rebirth
    G342A Clifftop
    G333A I Want To Be A Windmill
    G302A The Artist Garden
  • 2011: The Amazing Mind's Eye
    G81A The Migraine Tree
    G251A Annunciation
    G113A Charlie Chaplin Disappointed At Not Being Able To Stop Global Fascism
    G172A There's A Lot To Be Said For Hormones
    G215A The Death Of Man
    G123A No Good Ideas
    G221A-B4 Cat Lost In The Grass
    G162A-B2 The Quest For Physical Intimacy In A Loveless Relationship
    G112A-B1 Reaching For An Untouchable Strawberry
    G135A-B1 Idiotic Gardener Cheerily Planting Flowers on the Moon
    G217A-B1 Wax Cataclysm Of Phoenixes And Unphoenixes
    G196A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G197A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G198A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G199A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G200A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
  • 2010: The Lyceum Exhibition.
    G81A The Migraine Tree
    G97A Waiting For B.T.
    G149A 31st Century Crucifixion
    G151A Stone Wasp In A Mountain Lake
    G159A Female God
    G164A Chick Inside An Egg Dreaming Of The Sky
    G167A Eve Eating An Apple While God Looks On
    G170A The Landscape Of Anna Q Nilsson
    G173A Rubaiyat Thirty Five: Perfection and Necroamoria
    G175A The Hanging Of Judas Iscariot
    G179A The Bombing Of Dresden
    G180C Money Just Running Out
    G186A The Death By Explosion Of Moons And Keyholes
    G187A The First Grasp Of Rebirth
    G188C The Apocalypse of Finance
    G190A Portrait Of Andrew Williams as Writer Dreamer
    G191A Christmas Is About Presents
    G196A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G197A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G198A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G199A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G200A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G216A The Infinite Tiredness Of Ageing
    G220A Remembering Summer
    G161A The End And The Beginning
    G239A Stupid Computer Music
    G240A The Twelve Seasons
    G241A The Infinite Forest
    G242A Pi
    G243A Once Upon A Time
  • 2010: The Second Cubby Hole Exhibition.
    G73A Faces of Autumn
    G74A Coma
    G87A The Flute Player
    G88A Crying Invader (This Doesn't Happen)
    G101A The Execution Of King Charles I
    G103A A Tower Of Bees Hit By Forces Beyond Their Control
    G105A half a broken heart
    G106A Roar of the Pollution Godzilla
    G108A You Must Report To Oncology
    G116A Domination of the Fishes
    G125A So, It Has Come To This
    G135A Idiotic Gardener Cheerily Planting Flowers on the Moon
    G143A Light At The End Of A Long Dark Tunnel
    G144A The Measure Of Life
    G147A Sunset With Rose Petals
    G155A Liquid Sleep
    G158A The Apotheosis of Vincent van Gogh
    G160A The Chasm Was Too Wide
    G162A The Quest For Physical Intimacy In A Loveless Relationship
    G165A The Silkworm
    G169A Urban Escape
    G172A There's A Lot To Be Said For Hormones
    G178A The Lightning Of Creation
    G182A Depression Caused By The Selfishness Of Hiding Selected Personality Traits
    G193A Flower Of Awe
    G194A The Transmittance Of Pity Falsely Perceived As Love Through A One-Way Mirror
    G209A Hell Is Having Nothing To Do But Wait For The Conclusion Of An Inevitable Journey
    G215A The Death Of Man
    G217A Wax Cataclysm Of Phoenixes And Unphoenixes
    G218A Self Portrait As Dreamer
    G219A Self Portrait As Dream
    G223A The Romantic Life Of Rene Magritte
  • 2010: Cubby Hole Exhibition.
    G41A Girl In The Woods
    G59A Now That's What I Call Blue
    G68A Yet More Ends Are Even
    G71A Portrait of Jean Harlow
    G75A Portrait of Liza Minnelli
    G77A Chiaroscuro Self Portrait
    G89A Hello Earth
    G102A Portrait of Marlene Dietrich as a Waterfall
    G111A Perseus And The Burning Tree
    G113A Charlie Chaplin Disappointed At Not Being Able To Stop Global Fascism
    G114A The Time For Love Has Nearly Flown
    G123A No Good Ideas
    G129A The Joyous Birth Of The All-New Transhumanic Super Beings
    G130A Spear of Destiny
    G139A Arrow Stabbed Vine
    G140D Two Roman Legionaries Discovering The God-King Albion Turned Into Stone
    G149A 31st Century Crucifixion
    G150A Insecurity Grasping For Freedom
    G159A Female God
    G167A Eve Eating An Apple While God Looks On
    G168A Portrait of Anna Q Nilsson
    G170A The Landscape Of Anna Q Nilsson
    G173A Rubaiyat Thirty Five: Perfection and Necroamoria
    G183B Two Parents Looking At A Very Isolated Child
    G185A I'll Be Here For You
    G187A The First Grasp Of Rebirth
    G188C The Apocalypse of Finance
    G196A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G197A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G198A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G199A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
    G200A Apocalypse Of Flamingos
  • 2009: Lyceum Exhibition.
    G41A Girl In The Woods (after van Gogh)
    G49A Iraq War 2004
    G59A Now That's What I Call Blue
    G68A Yet More Ends Are Even
    G73A Faces of Autumn
    G74A Coma
    G75A Portrait of Liza Minnelli
    G77A Chiaroscuro Self Portrait
    G81A The Migraine Tree
    G83A The Only Symbiosis Of Ivy
    G87A The Flute Player
    G88A Crying Invader (This Doesn't Happen)
    G89A Hello Earth
    G90A Genesis of Terror
    G91A Penalties
    G97A Waiting For B.T.
    G99A Portrait of Kate Bush as a Winter Tree
    G102A Portrait of Marlene Dietrich as a Waterfall
    G105A half a broken heart
    G106A Roar of the Pollution Godzilla
    G108A You Must Report To Oncology
    G109A The Last Days Of Rapa Nui
    G111A Perseus And The Burning Tree
    G112A Reaching For An Untouchable Strawberry
    G113A Charlie Chaplin Disappointed...
    G114A The Time For Love Has Nearly Flown
    G115A Dead Bird
    G116A Domination of the Fishes
    G120A Monsters Of Spring
    G125A So, It Has Come To This
    G129A The Joyous Birth...
    G130A Spear of Destiny
    G135A Idiotic Gardener...
    G139A Arrow Stabbed Vine
    G142A Alain The Sad Bathysphere
    G144A The Measure Of Life
    G147A Sunset With Rose Petals
    G148A Sun On A Chain
    G156A The Death of Socialism By Its Own Hand
    G168A Portrait of Anna Q. Nilsson
    G170A The Landscape Of Anna Q. Nilsson
Festivals
  • 2011: Nantwich Festival Of Arts.
    G105A half a broken heart
    G116A Domination of the Fishes
    G149A 31st Century Crucifixion
    G167A Eve Eating An Apple While God Looks On
    G169A Urban Escape
    G188C The Apocalypse of Finance
    G193A Flower Of Awe
    G218A Self Portrait As Dreamer
    G219A Self Portrait As Dream
    G232A The Starcrossed Escape Of The Psychological Cosmonaut
    G221A-B3 Cat Lost In The Grass
    G187A-B1 The First Grasp Of Rebirth
    G162A-B1 The Quest For Physical Intimacy In A Loveless Relationship
    G161B The End And The Beginning
    G240A The Twelve Seasons