STUDIED: 1962/69 Salford Grammar School 1969/72 City of Leeds College
SEP. 1980: Prize-winner - Salford Urban Art Exhibition. APR. 1983: Work accepted by Manchester Academy for annual show. AUG. 1983: Winner of ‘Harold Riley’ award, Salford Show. SEP. 1983/4: Ran Lantern Gallery, Worsley, with four other artists. AUG. 1984: Featured on B.B.C. Television ‘Look Northwest’. MAY. 1985: Contributed to exhibition on poverty, Chapman Gallery-Salford University. JUL. 1985: Two paintings purchased for private collection, Salford Art Gallery. JAN . 1986: 1st prize winner- Bury New Year festival art competition. NOV. 1987: Prizewinner ‘Contemporary Salford’ Lowry Festival. FEB . 1989: Work accepted in Laing Exhibition, Ginnel Gallery Manchester. MAR. 1989: Winner of ‘John Clare’ Award Salford Art Gallery. NOV. 1989: Work included in exhibition of Northwest Artists Salford Art Gallery. DEC. 1989: Painting purchased private collection Salford University. MAY: 1993: Invited to exhibit with British Watercolour Society. JUNE: 1993 Invited to exhibit with British Society of Painters. AUG. 1994: Painting included in ‘A Return to Beauty’ exhibition Roy Miles Gallery London. JAN. 1998: Invited to exhibit in " Images of Rural Britain " Exhibition, Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston, Lincolnshire. SEPT. 1998: Work shown on Axis Web Site "New Artists". FEB-DEC. 1998: Work exhibited at The Lime Gallery, Laguna Beach, California. 1999: Work shown in The Talent Search Gallery, California. 1999: Paintings included in exhibition "Cheers! New British Art" California. AUG. 2002: Invited to exhibit in 'Our Manchester' exhibition during the Commonwealth Games. The Blyth Gallery OCT. 2009 Work in Eccles Community Art Gallery NOV: 2010 Paintings included in exhibition Eccles Community Art Gallery OCT: 2014 Exhibition at Eccles Community Art gallery. AUG: 2015 Drawing included in mDAC exhibition Palo Alto California. AUG: 2016 Drawing included in mDAC exhibition Palo Alto California. DEC 2019 Painting in the fist Manchester Open at HOME gallery MAY: 2019 Winner of the Ken Bromley Art Prize Bury Arts Festival SEPT: 2019 Painting in the first Salford Open exhibition. JAN: 2020 Painting in Manchester Open at HOME gallery. NOV : 2020 Several paintings exhibited at The Lowry 'Days Like These' exhibition DEC: 2021 One of the Winners The Artist magazine 90th anniversary cover competition JUNE 2022: Winner December Challenge The Artist Magazine SEPT: 2022 two painting in the Salford Open exhibition AUG: 2022: A painting exhibited in the online exhibition organised by Biafarin. NOV: 2022 Exhibited in Cisca "Light and Shadow" exhibition FEB: 2023 A painting in the 'Winter exhibition at the Open Gallery in Halifax. FEB: 2023 Two prints in the 'Print It!' exhibition in the Aire Place Studios in Leeds FEB: 2023 My painting won 'People's choice award at the Winter Exhibition Halifax. JUN: 2023 ARTIST INTERVIEW: Philip Westcott — Behind The Artist JUL: 2023 Painting accepted in International Gallerium exhibition 'Portraits' JUL: 2023 Invited to exhibit as part of 'Wild In Art' 'We Live Here' exhibition in Eccles JUL: 2023 Paintings exhibited in Goose Green Gallery Altrincham . SEPT: 2023 Winner and work exhibited as postcards in Larkhall Art Club's Mabon Festival APR: 2024 Winner of the Geoffrey Key award at the 'From The Art Of Salford' exhibition
GROUPEXHIBITIONS AT:
Bury Art Gallery, Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool, Manchester Business School, Alderley Edge, Rochdale Art Gallery, Marple Library and Art Gallery, The Garrick Theatre Stockport, Manchester University, Coach House Gallery Wigan. The British Lime Gallery Santa Ana.
“THREE ARTISTS” EXHIBITION MAR: 1988: Stockport Art Gallery, ‘Urban Landscapes’.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS DEC. 1983: Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington. JUL. 1984: Memorial Art Gallery, Swinton. NOV. 1986: Salford Art Gallery. DEC. 1989: Chapman Gallery, Salford University. NOV. 1990: Orion Gallery, Marple. AUG. 1992: Salford Art Gallery. OCT. 1992: Warrington Art Gallery. APR. 1994: Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool. DEC. 1995: Bury Art Gallery. MAY. 1995: Portico Gallery, Manchester. AUG. 1998: Rochdale Art Gallery. OCT. 1998: Buxton Art Gallery. MAY: 2001: Stockport Art Gallery. SEPT: 2001: Blyth Gallery Manchester APR: 2002: Saddleworth Art gallery. JAN: 2003: Lewis Art Gallery & Museum Blackburn. MAY: 2003: Directline Building Manchester. Cityscapes DEC: 2003: Directline Building Manchester. Landscapes 1. JUL: 2004: Directline Building Manchester. Landscapes 2. NOV: 2004: Directline Building Manchester. People. SEPT: 2005: Directline Building Manchester. Manchester views. OCT: 2007: Attic Gallery Bury MAY: 2016: Stockport Art Gallery MAY: 2017: Cornerstone Salford OCT: 2018: Astley Hall Farmhouse Gallery. MAY: 2019: The Old Parsonage Didsbury SEPT: 2019: Saddleworth Art Gallery JULY: 2019 Castle Parks Arts Centre Frodsham JULY2023-APR 2024 Goose Green Gallery Altrincham. APR: 2024 The Cornerstone
COLLECTIONS: Work in many private collections in Great Britain, Germany, America, Canada, Australia, Spain and Hong Kong.
WORK FEATURED IN: OCT. 1986: ‘Art and Artists’. NOV. 1986: ‘House and Garden’. NOV. 1986: ‘City Life’. DEC. I989: ‘House and Garden’. NOV. 1998: 'Derbyshire Life'. FEB: 1999: 'International Artist'. JUL: 2001: 'The BritArt directory'. AUG: 2004 Inside/out Magazine. Manchester Art Exhibitions. OCT: 2014: Work included in " The State of Art: Landscape and Portrait #1" by Bare Hill Publishing DEC: 2019 Article in 'Tubes' magazine JUN: 2020 Article about Salford Art Club including my paintings. JUN: 2020 Featured in Art of Isolation Book JULY: 2020 Featured in 'Tubes' magazine Landscapes SEP: 2020 Article on my art in 'Revive' magazine APR: 2021 Work featured in 'Artist's Talk' magazine JULY: 2022: Work featured in the 'Artist's responding to' International magazine. AUG: 2022; Work featured in 'Artistonish' magazine SEPT: 2022: Featured in Tubes Magazine 'ART from the Northern Heartlands' NOV: 2022: Featured in Cisca 'Light and Shadow' Magazine. JAN: 2023 Article featuring my sketches in the 'Collect Art' international Magazine. JAN: 2023 Painting featured in the anniversary edition by Collect Art '101 Contemporary Artists' MAY: 2023 Painting and article in The Daily Mirror. MAY: 2023 Article on Eccles in The Lancastrian Magazine Spring edition. JUN: 2023 Digital painting featured in Artistonish Contemporary Art Magazine JUL: 2023 Painting in Portraits Exhibition Catalogue Gallerium Arts SEPT: 2023 Painting in 'Landscapes' Exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery SEPT: 2023 Work exhibited in The Great Sublime exhibition Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket OCT: 2023 A painting of Eccles featured in The Daily Mirror NOV: 2023 Interview featured in Alrincham Today DEC: 2023 Article in Hidden Talents Magazine Winter edition. FEB: 2024 101 Contemporary Artists Volume 5 2024
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