Biography

EDUCATION
University Of London Institute Of Education
1970 Teaching Certificate In Art
1972 Bachelor Of Education and Art Degree
1979 Advanced Diploma In The Education Of Handicapped Children
1983 City And Guilds: Creative Studies In Embroidery, part 1 and part 2
London College Of Fashion: London Institute
1988 Microcomputers As A Resource For Learning Certificate: Thames Polytechnic

ART COURSES
1970-1975 Printing/fabric Design at Goldsmith's College textile studio
1993 Chinese Painting with Cai Xiaoli: Victoria And Albert Museum
1993-1995 Chinese flower painting with Cai Xiaoli
1994 Chinese Calligraphy and Tai Chi with Que Lei Lei: Victoria & Albert Museum
Botanical drawing and painting : Chelsea Physic Garden & Penge Adult Institute
1995 Xian University,China and Central Academy, Bejing ( landscape & flowers
Kew Gardens, London: Chinese Flower sketching & composition with Cai Xiaoli
1998-1999 Cai Xiaoli's Chinese Silk Painting Techniques: Flowers (1 year course)
1999-2000 Cai Xiaoli's Chinese classical landscape course ( 1 year)

SHORT COURSES 2000-2
Xiapin flowers and landscape painting with Cai Xiaoli and Wang Jia Nan
Chinese landscape painting, life drawing the Chinese Way with Que Lei Lei
Advanced flower painting ( Ling-Nan style) with Malasian artist James Tan
Watercolour painting with Australian artist Lois Baumer
Life Drawing at St Ives School of Painting
1997 Exhibitions: Organisation and Display

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002-2005 Gallery 93,Derby (3 exhibitions)
2 MAN SHOWS
1998-2001 Derby Guild Hall (4 exhibitions)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 & 2005 City Open at Derby City Art Gallery
2004 Derby Cathedral Centre Gallery
2000-2005 Ticknall Summer Exhibition (annual event)
2004 Derbyshire Open at Buxton Art Gallery
2003 Art Gallery & Farmhouse Gallery at Patchings Art Centre. Nottingham
1998 Leicester City Art Galleries Open Exhibition
1997 Duffield Gallery
Derby City Art Gallery
1995 Chinese Embassy in London
1993 Westminster Hall Galleries London
Smith's Gallery,Covent Garden,London

BY INVITATION
2003 Patchings Art Centre Gallery,Nottingham (flower painting)
Hope Gallery,Castleton.Derbyshire (landscapes)

ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004-2007 Arkwright's Mill Gallery, Cromford, Derbyshire (5 artists)
1994-2006 Serby Sketching Club Annual Trophy Exhibition
( Derby Guild Hall,Beetroot Tree Gallery,Grange Hall
1980-87 Lyre Room at The Royal Festival Hall, London ( textile art )