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ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2015

Disused Motor, Kilbeg Pier, Co Cork  is on show at the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London SW1 from the 12th - 22nd November 2015.

Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition 2015

I am very excited that for the third year running I have had a painting accepted for the prestigious Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition which will take place at The Mall Galleries between 14th - 19th September 2015. It will then tour to Castle Fine Art in Birmingham from 10th - 18th October 2015 and the Guildford House Gallery in Guildford from 21st November - 2nd January 2016.

Barges, Andrews Road, London.
Watercolour on Khadi paper
34 x 75 cm

Pages from my Sketchbook

Barges, Cat and Mutton Bridge, Hackney

Farringdon Station Tube Station, London

London

Frailes, Andalusia, Spain

Hidden Falls, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours 203rd Exhibition

Red Dumpster, Madison Avenue, New York, Grille, Ridley Road, Dalston, London and Fishing Net Floats, Kilbeg, Co Cork are all on show at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 203rd Exhibition at the Mall Galleries SW1 from March 25th until April 11th

Royal Watercolour Society's Contemporary Watercolour Competition

Barge, Regent's Canal, London  and 75 Ridley Road, Dalston, London  will be on show at the Royal Watercolour Society's Contemporary Watercolour Competition at the Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London, SE1 9JH from the 6th - 18th March 2015.

Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition 2015

Disused Motor, Kilbeg Pier, Co Cork has been selected for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition which runs from 16th Feb to 21st Feb 2015 at The Mall Galleries, London. 

In March I will have two paintings on show at the RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015 and three at the 203rd Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Open Exhibition. 

Paintings now on show around London

I have five paintings hanging at the moment in London. The two below are at the Royal Watercolour's Autumn show Watercolour Secrets at the Bankside Gallery next to the Tate Modern until November 1st. I was delighted to see that they had been hung in an excellent position close to the entrance of the gallery above the reception desk, on either side of an excellent painting of Neon Road to Damascus II by Denis Ryan:

Down in the Dulwich Picture Gallery three of my paintings have been selected for the Friends Open Exhibition. Unfortunately I haven't seen them up yet as I went to the Private View on the wrong day - totally my fault! I'll get down before it closes on Sunday 12th October. Patriot Bar, Chambers Street, NY was shortlisted for a prize.

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2014

Sea Pinks and Lichen, Ireland (Khadi paper 22" x 30") has been selected for the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2014 at the Mall Galleries, London, 15th - 20th September. 

I am currently in South West Cork working on a series of daily quick sketches of more sea plantains, pinks, trees and other things. I have been working mainly out of doors in a 14 cm square notebook using water soluble Derwent Graphitone Water Soluble Pencils and a Masquepen and masking fluid.

Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition

I am very pleased to have two New York paintings on show at the Royal Watercolour Society Spring Exhibition at the Bankside Gallery, London SE1 9JH from the 28th March until the 26th April 2014.

As well as some excellent works by the Society's Members there is a display of very interesting works by David Jones RWS from the 1st World War.

Royal Watercolour Society Exhibitions Award

My painting Wooster Street, Soho won the Royal Watercolour Society Exhibitions Award which entitles me to enter 4 paintings to the Society's shows this year. The first will be the Spring Exhibition which runs from the 28th March until the 26th April at the Society's Bankside Gallery on the South Bank of the Thames, next to Tate Modern.

  

South Sea Island Flowers for the Wall Street Journal

2nd masthead for the Wall Street Journal came out last month for the South Sea Island Mansion issue

Wall Street Journal Masthead

My Wall Street Journal Masthead for the real estate section, MANSION
Came out while I was in Naples

Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition

My painting W 100th Street Grocery has been selected to be included in the upcoming Sunday Times Watercolour Competition Exhibition which is at the Mall Galleries, London from 16 - 21 September 2013.
It was of our local corner store in New York.

Article in Illustrators & Artists Magazine, June 2013

An article about the techniques I used in my prize- winning painting Locksmith just appeared in Artists & Illustrators Magazine - see page 68, Winning Ways.

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour Annual Show

If you're in Central London do check out the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour Annual Exhibition 2013 at the Mall Galleries on the Mall, near Trafalgar Square, London SW1. I have four of my NewYork paintings in the show

http://mallgalleries-shows.com/

Winner of the Winsor & Newton 1st Prize at the 2013 RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition!

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The Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Competition is an annual competition open to non-Members held at the Society's gallery next to Tate Modern on London's South Bank.

Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH

22nd February - 3rd March 2013 11am - 6pm daily

The next Wall Street Journal illustration

My latest Wall Street Journal illustration came out yesterday with an article "China Fluffs Up Cotton Price" in the Commodities section. I'm very pleased with how the graphics and the artwork work together.

Exhibitions

This week I was delighted to hear that two of my paintings have been selected for juried art exhibitions in London next month.


Locksmith, 2nd Avenue, New York will be showing at the Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Exhibition at Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH from Friday 22nd February until Sunday 3rd March 2013

http://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk


Standpipe, Tribeca, New York will be in the in the Lynn Painter- Stainer Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1Y 5BD from Tuesday 19th February until Saturday 2nd March 2013

http://www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk

The Artist's Magazine's 2012 Annual Art Competition

I am very excited to have received an Honorable Mention in the Landscape Interior category of The Artist's Magazine's 29th Annual Art Competition for Chambers Street, Tribeca, New York. All the winners are announced in the December 2012 issue.