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Over the years my paintings have been exhibited on at least Thirty-two occasions in different galleries including The Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead and major London venues such as The Royal Academy at Burlington House, The National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, The Geffrye Museum, and The Mall Gallery. Overall, ten have been solo shows, and a smaller number were exhibitions in which I participated both as artist and curator.

My artistic agents, Francis Kyle and John Davies have at different times exhibited and sold my work through their galleries – Francis Kyle in Mayfair, London and John Davies at Stow on the Wold.

My first solo show was in The New Gallery, Hornsey Library in 1973. Its basis was a collection of portrait drawings including some I’d made of Tottenham school children while working as a teacher. As the date approached I realised these were insufficient to fill the walls, so I painted additional large-scale works and also included student works produced in my time at Hornsey Art College and post-graduate year in Newcastle on Tyne.

THE NEW GALLERY HORNSEY 1973

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Left to right: Dorothy Pearce, Stanley Green, Rosemary McPherson, John Pearce, Nancy Blaxter.

OLD CONTEMPORARIES, Islington Arts Factory 2011

This exhibition brought together some old friends and long-lost colleagues who were at Art College in the nineteen-sixties, and who have continued their artistic practice, in some form, throughout nearly sixty years of political, personal and artistic vicissitudes, and with varying degrees of recognition or encouragement. To try to account for their sustained motivation, their artistic testimonies were presented alongside their work. More about each artist can be found at: https://oldcontemporaries.com/