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Group Exhibitions and Competitions
2024
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters’ annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
The Society of Women Artists’ annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
The Almenara Art Prize online exhibition
2023
The Royal Institute of Oil Painters’ annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Kingston Artists Open Studios, Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames
Shortlisted for the biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, online exhibition
Winner of the Cass Art Award at The Society of Women Artist’s annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Pre-selected for The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition
2022
Pre-selected for The Royal Institute for Oil Painters’ annual exhibition
The Society of Women Artists annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Kingston Artists Open Studios, Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames
Portrait Artist of the Year – The Exhibition, Compton Verney Art Gallery, Warwickshire.
Pre-selected for The Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition
The Transience of Beauty, The Gallery, Holt, Norfolk.
2021
Highly commended, Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2021, online exhibition.
Longlisted, Jackson’s Open Painting Prize, online exhibition.
2020
Finalist, Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year, Series 7.
Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2019
Selected for Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year (unable to attend).
Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
Publications/press
2023
The Artist Magazine, Learning to Look Part 1, June 2023 edition.
2022
The Artist Magazine, Make a New Start, January 2022 edition.
The Artist Magazine, Raising Your Profile, February 2022 edition.
The Artist Magazine, Develop a Professional mindset, March 2022 edition.
The Artist Magazine, Revealing Emotions, July 2022 edition, published May 2022.
2021
Good Housekeeping Magazine, If Not Now, then When, June 2021 edition.
Surrey Life Magazine, Face Time, May 2021 edition.
Cass Art, Interview with Sky Portrait Artist of the Year heat winners & finalists.
2020
Work selected for Portraits for NHS Heroes book, a record of the NHS during the pandemic, instigated by Tom Croft, published by Bloomsbury.
Notable commissions and sitters
2022
Richard Biggs, Rhodes Scholar, MA BSc, retiring Headmaster of King’s College, Taunton – commissioned by Kings College School for their collection.
Self-portrait, commissioned by The Artist Magazine for their July 2022 edition.
2020
Eddie Izzard. Writer, comedian, actor. Sitter for the final of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year.
Bernardine Evaristo. Booker Prize Winner. Sitter for the Semi-Final of Portrait Artist of the Year.
Melanie Sykes. Model, presenter, editor. Sitter for Heats of Portrait Artist of the Year.