“ ..I am an
artist living in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. I was born in Newry, Co. Down
but have lived most of my life close to Belfast. I went to art college in
Belfast and Manchester, achieving a first class honours degree in illustration.While
at college, I won first prize at the North West Artists exhibition sponsored by
BP. After college I began exhibiting my paintings with Tom Caldwell Galleries
and won awards at the Royal Ulster Academy (best painting as voted by the
public and UTV award). Despite my success in painting, I began working in
advertising which left no time for painting.After further career moves in
graphic design, I began teaching various art classes. I also began teaching in
local primary schools. I have now stopped teaching in order to devote myself
entirely to painting. I paint in both oil and watercolours, depending on the
subject and have no preference. I paint ordinary people in their environments
and always try to make the commonplace interesting. My work has recently been
featured in The Artist and Artists and Illustrators magazine. I have exhibited at The Royal Society of Portrait
Painters at the Mall galleries, London. I won the watercolour prize at the
Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast in 2017 and last year, I won the Whyte's
auctioneers prize in the Watercolour Society of Ireland exhibition in Dublin
and I was awarded second prize at this years, Artist of the Year exhibition at
the Mall Galleries, London, sponsored by Artists and Illustrators magazine”.
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