Artist CV
Art helps me to make sense of what is difficult, and to find beauty in the everyday.
Television | Exhibitions & talks | Published articles & illustrations
Education & Award | Collections & Testimonials
Television
Created improvised art using found objects, at flea market in Paris, in BBC4 Documentary about Surrealism.
With BBC4 presenter Philippa Perry
Exhibitions/talks
“Be Drawn” for The Union The Union Club, Soho, commissioned me to draw portraits of members in return for a donation to the Simon Community. I drew 38 portraits altogether, some of individuals, some of couples, even three people together. A dog, whose owner preferred not to be in the picture. And an Oscar-winning movie star. April 2020
“Be Drawn” at Hampstead Parish Church Hampstead Parish Church invited me to sketch portraits of clergy and parishioners during Lent 2020. Individuals were invited to choose a place to be drawn. I sketched 35 portraits (singles, doubles, groups). Before they could be displayed, the Covid-19 pandemic required churches to be closed. The images were sent out in daily emails to sustain a sense of community. March/April 2020
“From High Flyer to Rock Bottom” Pen and ink/watercolour drawings, made in psychiatric hospital and afterwards. Shown at: Slaughter and May, Macfarlanes, HarperCollins, Linklaters, Mishcon de Reya, Birketts in 2019, and online elsewhere during the Covid pandemic, 2020.
“Drawing for better mental health” Workshop using own images as invitation to participants to create. Slaughter and May, May 2019, and online several times during the Covid pandemic.
“Handmade books: a masterclass and exhibition” Demonstration using dozens of sketchbooks, of assorted structures, made and subsequently drawn in by me. At the Wigtown Literary Festival (in Scotland) and The Idler Academy and Selfridges (both London).
Published articles
Interviewed and wrote about, among others, Tracey Emin, Billy Childish, Anthony Gormley, Outsider Art, Nazi looted art, Tate Britain’s hidden archive, child prodigies, and the passion of individual private collectors.
- The Financial Times
- The Sunday Times
- The Idler
- Harpers Bazaar
Published illustrations
Published illustrations in book format alongside work from several others in On being Noble (Tribute to Octavia Hill).
Illustrated my own A Modest Book About How To Make An Adequate Speech.
Illustrated The Unbreakable Student, by Dr Nic Hooper.
Education
Hampstead School of Art, 2008-2012
- Painting in oils, acrylics
- Life drawing
- Print making
Award
Special award for outstanding young artist in Kensington and Chelsea, aged 14.
“In Coventry (seascape with figures)”, Leighton House
Collections
Starting in 2019, I have sold original drawings, prints and paintings to many people. My works can be found in the collections of:
- Ms Eve Lom (dancer and entrepreneur)
- Professor Henrietta Bowden-Jones OBE (psychiatrist)
- Ms Charlotte Fox-Weber (author)
- Rev Dr A. Lepine (rector, St James’s Piccadilly)
- Dr S. House-Wade (art historian)
- Ms Julia van Beuningen (musician)
- Mr Hugh Barnes (author)
- Mr David Hutchinson
- Ms F Hardy (author)
- Ms A Bragg
- Dr Angela Mooney (psychologist)
- Ms L. Dennett OBE
- Mr Mike Abrahams (artist-designer)
- Professor A. Murcott
- Ms Emma Burns (managing director of Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler)
- Mr Robert Twigger (author)
- Mr Dan Jones
- Mr T Bragg
- Ms J. Moore
- Ms C. Davies
- Ms V. Phillip (entrepreneur)
- Mr M. A. Brooke (economist)
- Mr B. Jenner (rhetorician)
- Ms F. Rouse
- Ms Cath M.
- Ms K. Chapman
- Mr Angel Gurria-Quintana
- Mr Jaime Marshall (literary agent)
- Friends of the late Ms Farah Tazeen Ahmad (journalist and TV presenter)