About
I have lived in north London since the 1990s after a childhood in Devon and Cornwall. My work is primarily drawn, often on site using sketchbooks, in a process that can lead to further drawings, paintings and digital prints.
My work has been exhibited at the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition, Barbican Centre, London, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire, Mall Galleries, London, the artist-run Skylark Gallery on the South Bank, and a variety of pop-ups and fairs. It is in the collections of Hampshire County Council, the University of Surrey, and many private collections, and items relating to my 1996 exhibition at Wolseley Fine Arts are held in the Tate Library, London.
I have served on the editorial and advisory boards of Urban Sketchers, and helped found London Urban Sketchers.
I have written three books about drawing: Sketch Your World (2014) and Pen and Ink (2016) have been translated into seven languages, and Dream Draw Design My Garden, one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2015. I have worked as a journalist for a variety of publications, including the Art Newspaper, the Guardian, Art World, Artists & Illustrators and the New Statesman.
Books
Sketch Your World
This includes the work of more than 60 international artists, is published in the UK (Apple Press), US (North Light), China (Shanghai People's Fine Art), Asia (Page One), France (Eyrolles), Germany (Christopher Verlag), and Korea (Art Books).
Pen and Ink
This features the works of around 30 artists. It has also been published in French (Pyramyd), German (Michael Fischer), Spanish (Editorial Gustavo Gili), Portuguese (GG Brasil) and Dutch (Librero).
Dream Draw Design My Garden
An idea book and guided journal, it was published in 2015. It was chosen as one of Amazon's Best Books of 2015.
Exhibitions include
2022 London by Urban Sketchers group show, Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London, 8-16 October
2021 Drawn Poetry 2020, Stadswekerij de Kas, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2017 Sketch 2017, a touring group exhibition of 100 sketchbooks showing at the Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Plymouth College of Art, Devon, and the Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
2017 Group show, Timberyard Soho, London W1
2014-16 Urban Sketchers London, Timberyard cafe, Old Street, London
2013 Sketchbooks, Greater Victoria Public Library Central Branch, Canada
2013 Seeing the World, One Drawing at a Time, Ackland Museum of Art store, South Carolina, US
2012 Urban Sketchers London group show, Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London
2012 Grand Designs Live, London
2011 N16 Pop-up, Stoke Newington, London
2010 Group show, Oxo Gallery, London
2009-12 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2008-14 Skylark Galleries, Oxo Tower, London
2006-07 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, and tour
2004 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London, and tour
1997 University of Surrey, Guildford, solo show
1996 In Search of England, Wolseley Fine Arts, London, solo show
1993 Paintings, Barbican Centre, solo show
1989-92 Studio Gallery, Bristol