I was founder and co-organiser of Open Studios (sw) from 1997 – 2003. We co-ordinated and promoted an annual, open-studios event across Devon and Cornwall, including up to 200 participating artists.
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 Nightview, Beside The Wave London, Primrose Hill.
2007 Landscapes, Leaf, Falmouth.
Paintings, Truro School.
2002 Landscapes. Truro School.
2001 Portrait of Jim Daniel. Market Street Mews, Penryn.
1999 Nightviews. Truro School.
Landscapes and Portraits. Duchy Hospital, Truro.
1998 Nightview Studies. Truro School.
1997 Reflected Light: Portraits, Landscapes and Nightviews. Falmouth Art Gallery.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 St Ives School of Painting Celebrates 80 Years: Tutor’s Exhibition
2016 Staff Exhibition as part of the Drawing Forum, Falmouth University
Big and Small, Falmouth Art Gallery.
Chelsea Art Fair, London April.
2011 Edinburgh International Art Fair, Edinburgh.
2010 The Purpose of Drawing, The Cube Gallery, Plymouth.
158th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
2009 A Cornish Perspective, The European Commission, Jean Monnet House, London.
2008 156th Autumn Exhibition, Royal west of England Academy Bristol.
2007 RWA Figurative Works, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
2006 154th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
2005 Encore. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
153rd Autumn Exhibition. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
2004 152nd Autumn Exhibition. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
2003 151st Autumn Exhibition. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
Open Studios (sw), Falmouth.
2002 The Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries, London.
Open Studios (sw) 2002, Falmouth
2001 Open Studios (sw) 2001, Falmouth.
2000 Annual Exhibition of Cornish Contemporary Fine Art, Trewithen House, Truro.
Open Studios (sw) 2000, Falmouth.
1999 B.P. Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery, and Aberdeen.
The Discerning Eye. The Mall Galleries, London.
1998 The Hunting Art Prizes. Royal College of Art, London & Newport Museum.
1996 The Hunting Art Prizes. Royal College of Art, London, and Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
1995 Royal Society of Portrait Painters. The Mall Galleries, London.
1994 Lie of the Land. Newlyn Art Gallery.
B.P. Portrait Award. National Portrait Gallery.
1993 Concrete. Newlyn Art Gallery.
1992 Painting Today. Bonhams, London.
1991 Painting Today. Bonhams, London.
AWARDS
1999 The Facade Prize at The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London.
1998 Regional Prize at the Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London.
WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall.
Truro School, Cornwall.
Royal Cornwall Institute, Truro, Cornwall.
Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen’s Street, Covent Garden, London.
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
Oli’ Graffy, commissioned by Dinah Graffy.
Jim Daniel, Grand Secretary General, portrait commissioned by the Freemasons for the Grand Lodge, Great Queen St, London
Giles Winchester, portrait commissioned by Phillippa Giles (BBC producer).
Tommy Winchester, portrait commissioned by Phillippa Giles (BBC producer).
Beatrice Winchester, portrait commissioned by Phillippa Giles (BBC producer).
The Reverend Mr Martin Picken, portrait commissioned by Oliver Padel (lecturer in Medieval Celtic languages, Cambridge University).
Dr John Rea Principal of the College of St Mark & St John, portrait commissioned by Henry Duwrose for Marjon College, Plymouth.
PUBLICATIONS
How to Paint Skin Tones by James Horton, copyright 1993, Quarto Publishing.
ISBN: 0-89134-670-8
A Medieval Cornish Miscellany by W.M.M. Picken edited by O.J. Padel:
ISBN 1-86077-098-3
The Artists Bible published by Quarto Publishing January 2004.
ISBN: 978 -1-86155-644-8
Posers, exhibition catalogue, Falmouth Art Gallery.
20 Years of Contemporary Art at Falmouth Art Gallery 1980-2000, exhibition catalogue, Falmouth Art Gallery.
Millers auction catalogue 1993.
Cornwall Arts magazine, Winter, 2003
The Hunting Review, September 2003, article on Cornish Artists associated with the Hunting Art Prizes.
Who’s Who in Art, published 2003.
Opening Out by Ashley Hold, an article commissioned for Artists Newsletter, April 2000.
Ashley Hold, MA, RWA. 