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My practice is fuelled by a lifelong love of both dogs and drawing, with a portfolio of over 200 pet portrait commissions alongside projects and themed collections. My work has recently shifted from formal portraits to more detailed scenes on a larger scale that incorporate a narrative element, and I am particularly interested in exploring the unique nature of our relationship with dogs, how we have utilised their capacity for learning to fulfil various domestic and societal roles, and how they share our spaces.
My work is meticulous and detailed, inspired by a long standing admiration for realism and the satisfaction of recreating subjects on paper. I aim to capture characters, relationships and scenes from life, true to life, and work in colour pencil to achieve this. I enjoy exploring the relationship between realism and abstraction in my process by rendering drawings in small squares, essentially creating small abstract drawings that gradually reveal a large representational image.
Originally from Sheffield, I have been based in Leeds for over ten years, where I have built my creative practice around my young family and job in Higher Education. I have exhibited work in many group exhibitions both online and in galleries across Yorkshire. I am a member of the Association of Animal Artists, the UK Coloured Pencil Society and North Art, and am a graduate of Wimbledon College of Art, where I studied Design for Performance.
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Awards/Exhibitions
Gallery Group Exhibitions:
Green: Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield - May-June 2025
HOME: Left Bank Leeds - April-May 2025
Animal Planet: Open Gallery, Halifax - February 2025
Squares: Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield - August-September 2024
Miniatures Revisited: Cupola Gallery, Sheffield - March-April 2024
Collective Creativity: St James’ Atrium Gallery, Leeds - February-April 2024
North Art Winter Exhibition: Northlight Arts Centre, Leeds - December 2023-January 2024
Win It! Art Prize Exhibition (Longlisted): Aire Place Studios, Leeds - September 2023
Holmfirth Artweek: The Civic, Holmfirth - July 2023
Bring It!: Aire Place Studios, Leeds - May 2023
Art Makes me Smile: The Heart of Art Gallery, Shipley - March 2023
Figurative Art: Open Gallery, Halifax - March 2023
Meet the Locals: Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield - February 2023
The Sketchbook Project; Brooklyn Art Library, New York - 2020-2023
Summer Exhibition: ArtForm Framers, Shipley - July 2016
Online Group Exhibitions:
PAINTING: The Animal Artspace - September 2025
DOMESTIC: The Animal Artspace - April 2025
100 x 100: BobCat Gallery - March 2025
Deconstruction & Abstraction: Meta Space Gallery - April-May 2024
Adventure into the Wild: Embracing the Animal Kingdom: Chris Corish Art - February 2024
Inside the Lines 7: UK Colour Pencil Society - December 2023
My Animals: Gallery Omnibus - November 2023
Annual Open Exhibition: UK Colour Pencil Society - August 2023
Inside the Lines 5: UK Colour Pencil Society - December 2021
Art Trails:
Horsforth Walk of Art: Leeds - July 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023
Kirkstall Art Trail: Leeds - July 2016, 2018, 2019
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