The Dean Clough ”Showcase is a major exhibition across all its gallery spaces that displays, as never before, the diversity and excellence of the visual arts across the Northern region.

The Manchester 2020 VR Exhibition is at the Princess Street Gallery, Manchester from 21st August – 21st September 2021

Inspired by Sir George Clausen RA’s painting Trees, I have explored the artist’s much quoted dictum that: “light is the most important person in a picture”.

Showcase is a major exhibition across all Dean Clough’s gallery spaces that displays, as never before, the diversity and excellence of the visual arts across the Northern region.

As lockdown finally lifts, galleries are at last able to re-open their doors and socially-distanced, live exhibitions can slowly recommence.

Over the winter months, I have been busy preparing and moving into my new studio. It is a much larger, brighter space and it’s an absolute joy to be settled into working there at last.

During the month of September, my work is to be shown in a solo exhibition held at the Atelier-Galerie Bressigny in Angers, France.

Veronica’s Choice work in progress Now that the days are getting longer and warmer I am spending much more time outside in my garden, and so the impulse to capture some of its glorious flowers in paint grows ever stronger. I am currently painting my favourite clematis “Veronica’s Choice”, whose flowers are stunningly beautiful this…