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5th December 2024

La Bibliothèque Nationale de France

This week I took the Eurostar to Paris to personally deliver seven mezzotints to La Bibliothèque Nationale.  It is a huge honour to have my work bought by this most prestigious French national collection. Paul, Meryl Ainslie and I spent a full and fascinating day with senior curators at the BNF Richelieu building on Rue... Read more »

28th September - 27th October

A Converstion with Trees – Fen Ditton Gallery, Cambridge.

 ‘A Conversation with Trees’ brings together three generations of artists and makers whose ideas, images and materials reflect, in different ways, a conversation with trees. A strong presence of fine printmaking is shown in woodcuts by leading German printmaker, Christiane Baumgarter; etchings and aquatints by Norman Ackroyd, linocuts by Andrew Carter, mezzotints by Sarah Gillespie and handmade... Read more »

14th September 2024 - 5th January 2025

Royal West of England Academy

Every year The Royal West of England Academy holds an Annual Open Exhibition, which is now in its 171st year.  As an Academician, I am privileged to show four works every year.  This year I have four mezzotints in the wonderfully diverse exhibition. Opening times etc here

August 11th - Sept 21st

Night Shift

Enormously proud to be part of this show at theundergroundstream in Devon. Night Shift, brings together works by artists Susan Derges, Sarah Gillespie and Martin Prothero, to celebrate distinctive aspects of the nocturnal. Each artist has developed a unique relationship with the covert mysteries of night, and with the unusual working hours that the title... Read more »

10th & 11th August

Open Studio

As part of my ongoing involvement with the local habitat/conservation group, myself and Frances Gynn will be opening our studios for two days in August. Much of the profits from these days will go to support phase 2 of what is proving to be a very successful Water Vole reintroduction the river Gara here in... Read more »

10th June - 18th August

Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibtion

Very happy indeed to once again have two pieces in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Both are mezzotints – Wounded Tiger  and A Thousand Goodbyes  and both are in the very elegant room Vll curated by Anne Desmet RA.  

3rd - 28th June 2024

U n d e r w i n g

I’m delighted to be presenting my second solo exhibition at Rabley Gallery.  The work of the last three years, UNDERWING continues my interest, lets call it an obsession,  in British moths.  Increasingly I find that of course they do not exist in isolation – that every being is only connected but in communication, with each... Read more »

April & May 2024

Printing the Silk Road

I’m honoured to have three mezzotints at the China Art Museum for the Shanghai 5th International Printmaking Exhibition. This huge and very international survey looks at the exchange of printmaking knowledge east to west and west to east, back and forth along the Silk Road over the centuries.

21st - 24th March

London Original Print Fair

Rabley Gallery are launching two new prints of mine at Somerset House this year: Peach Blossom Moth and Shimmer (featured). Both images look further at familiar themes; Peach Blossom a gorgeous common British moth and Shimmer a return to the ever-fascinating Slapton Ley.  I particularly love the Ley in winter, its bare trees and flooded reedbeds a lost... Read more »

19th - 31st March

野生のかけら (Yasei no kakera)

L- Gallery Hiroshima present my second solo Exhibition in Japan, “Fragments of wild” It is a tremendous honour to be invited back to Japan and I am delighted to offer a new selection of works to Adeline Le Mette and her team.  Despite the sterling efforts of re-wilders and fabulous  ideas such as the ‘half... Read more »

16th January - 21st January

London Art Fair

At the London Art Fair 2024, Rabley Gallery presents a curated stand of new prints and drawings.  My own offering this year is a very large silverpoint drawing; “Pine Speaks to Lark” Find Rabley on Stand 11 Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street Islington, London N1 0QH     Featured artists this year: Amy-Jane Blackhall... Read more »

31st January 2024

John Ruskin Prize

Wounded Tiger has been shortlisted for the 2024 John Ruskin Prize. The theme of the competition was ‘seeing the unseen, hearing the unheard’ and this  image of a Garden Tiger, a moth that has declined by around 90% and who’s caterpillars used to feed our now largely absent cuckoos, seemed to me to fit the... Read more »