Life Story
Born in England 1950
Education
1969-72 Falmouth School of Art. B.A. Fine Art
1968-69 Camberwell School of Art Foundation
Studios
2003- Mercatale di Cortona, Umbria, Italy
1996-2003 Kingscote, Gloucestershire.
1991-1996 Venice, California, U.S.A..
1989-1990 Fondation Karolyi, Vence, South of France.
1989 Almeria, Spain.
1978-82 Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucestershire.
1974-78 Bethesda Chapel, Uley, Gloucestershire.
1973 University of California, Davis, U.S.A..
1972 Nicholas Treadwell Studios, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
Exhibitions (solo)
2004 Mercatale di Cortona, Umbria, Italy.
2002 Goathouse Gallery, Kingscote, Gloucestershire.
2000 Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
1982 Dan Klein Gallery, London.
1981 Prescote Gallery, Oxfordshire.
1980 Thornbury Arts Festival.
1979 Atelier Josche Roverts, Gouda, Holland.
1978 Christopher Strangeways Gallery, London
1977 Oxford Gallery, Oxford.
1972 Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, London.
Exhibitions (group)
Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, Southampton
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
Open Studios, Stroud District.
Taster Exhibition, Stroud Valleys Artspace.
Talks House, Salisbury.
Fresh Air, Quenington, Gloucestershire.
Tea Time, Newport Museum, Gwent.
Sculpture at the Park, Park Gallery, Cheltenham.
Yew Tree Gallery, Derbyshire.
Westminster Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
33 Kings Street Gallery, Bristol.
The Cow and Sheep Show, Portal Gallery, London.
Ceramics at Cirencester, Cirencester Workshops,
Art and Ceramics Gallery, London.
Otterton Mill Gallery, Devon.
South Wales Potters, Newport Museum, Gwent.
Awards
1996 Oppenheim-John Downes Trust
1980 Workshop Trainee Grant, Crafts Council.
1974 Studio equipment Grant, Crafts Advisory Committee.
1974 Maintenance Bursary, Crafts Advisory Committee.
Artist-in-Residence
2001 Bourneside School, Cheltenham.
1992-96 House of Blues, U.S.A..
1980 Thornbury Arts Festival.
1977-82 Prema Arts Centre, Uley, Gloucestershire.
1972 Nicholas Treadwell Studios , Stoke-on-Trent.
Public Commissions
1992-95 Series of 118 relief portraits of Blues musicians, House of Blues, U.S.A..
1990 Series of relief sculptures, S.S.B. Institute of Higher Medicine, South India.
1989 Wall relief sculpture, Le Texan, Avignon, France.
1983 Life size brass Buddha, Hard Rock Café, New York City.
1976 Life size replica of megalosaurus, Stroud Museum.
Public Collections
Newport Museum, Gwent.
Welsh Folk Museum, Cardiff.
Teaching Experience
2002-03 Horsley Hall, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire.
2000-01 Sculpture from life, Stroud college.
1999 Teaching teachers at Arvon Foundation.
1998 Clay modelling, Acorn School , Nailsworth.
1996 Part time teaching to school children, New Orleans, U.S.A.
1991-93 Clay modelling with school children in California.
1983-88 Sculpture from life and life drawing, Prema Arts Centre.
1978-88 Arts, crafts and ceramics to children, adults, unemployed, mentally
handicapped and teenagers, Prema Arts Centre.
1973-79 Visiting lecturer at Falmouth, Cardiff, Corsham, Bristol,
Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle Art Colleges.
1972-73 Visiting lecturer at Davis, Oakland, Hayward and San Francisco
Art colleges, California,
Feature Publications
Crafts Magazine
Sunday Observer Colour Supplement
Gloucestershire and Avon Life
Resurgence MagazineIllustrated Books
The Crafts Tradition by Lionel Lambourne
The Eccentric Teapot by Garth Clark
Novelty Teapots by Edward Bramah
Ceramics Manual by Graham FlightPublic Service
Public Service
2000-2003 Adviser to Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Trust.
1989-99 Steering group of Tandem Trust, a teachers and artists collaborative.
1997 Consultant to Stroud Cultural Planning Initiative.
1991-95 Weekly volunteer at homeless feeding project, Santa Monica, California.
1990 Cultural Panel at Global Forum, Moscow.
1989-1999 Trustee of Rama Foundation, Zurich.
1988-89 Trustee of Evelyn Williams Trust.
1986 Founder of Gloucestershire Arts Promoters.
1983-88 Combined Arts Panel, South West Arts.
1982-84 Management Committee, South West Arts.
1978-88 Founder and artistic director, Prema Arts Centre (see below).Prema.
Between 1978 and 1988 I stopped producing art, while I set up and ran an arts centre called Prema, inspired by the teachings of Satya Sai Baba. Prema was founded as a non-profit charity with the purpose of providiing a centre of excellence for the production, presentation and teaching of the arts.
Having raised the capital for the purchase and conversion of a beautiful Georgian Baptist church, we presented a very exciting and diverse program of fine and applied arts, experimental theatre, contempary dance, every form of music and a pioneering education program.
Mixing the established with the cutting edge (for example Prema was one of the first platfroms for world music) and with a commitment to accessability and affordability, Prema established a reputation as the leading rural arts centre in the U.K.
