About the Artist

1957 - Born in Hannover, Germany

1979 - University of Stirling, BSc Hon. Biology

1985 - Fellowship of the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, with The Special Examination in Bacteriology, Paddington College of Technology, London

1982-2014 - Part-time courses in Life Drawing and Screen Printing, Chichester, London, Falmouth & Dundee

1982-97 - Biomedical Scientist in Microbiology, holding a senior post at University College Hospital in London from 1989-97

1992-1996 - Part-time courses in Stained Glass Techniques, London

1997-2003 - Ran own business as a stained glass artist in London, working to commission and for exhibitions in London, Ashbourne and St. Andrews

2003-present - Living and working as a painter in Carnoustie, Scotland.

Exhibitions and Commissions

1991 - Commissioned to do large oil painting, which hangs in the waiting room of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London

1999 - Bruton Street Gallery, Mayfair, London, Summer Exhibition

2000 - Ashbourne Gallery, British Contemporary Glass Society Show

2004 - St. Andrew's Museum Cathedral Project, 'Pilgrims Exhibition'

2005 - St Andrews Bay Hotel, Celebration of Art, fundraising art auction for High School of Dundee Patrons' Association

2006-10 - Eduardo Alessandro Studios, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, and at the Glasgow Art Fair and the Affordable Art Fair, London

2012-13 - Iona House Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 'Scottish Art'

2016 - W. Gordon Smith Award Exhibition, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Inverness-shire, Spring Exhibition

2018 - Tatha Gallery, Newport, Fife. Winter Show
Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Inverness-shire, Christmas Show

2019 - Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly, Inverness-shire, Summer Show

Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture, Edinburgh, 193^rd Annual & Open Exhibition

Featured artist in ‘Birds of A Feather’, Stone Sparrow NYC,Greenwich village, New York

2020 - Stone Sparrow NYC, group show of women artists, ‘The Unseen’

Forthcoming 18th November: ‘Parallel Universe’, Stone Sparrow NYC

Forthcoming 5th December: Fidra Fine Art, Gullane, East Lothian, Winter Show

Publications

2016 - The Times, Scottish Edition, January 18^th 2016 by Giles Sutherland, Gordon Smith Painting Competition, Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh

Scotland on Sunday, January 10^th 2016, by Susan Mansfield, Gordon Smith Award seeks to champion neglected art of painting.

2020 - American Art Collector Magazine, issue 179, September 2020, p. 60-62 Collector’s Focus: Landscapes