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Waves of Discovery, Part I (King's College 2016)
Waves of Discovery, Part II (C.O.S. 2017)
Towards The Mayflower, Part III (Clare Hall, 2020)
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July Open Studios

PRICING
Payment plan totally acceptable on larger work if you can give me a deposit for your purchase: then typically monthly payments one month at a time. Art to be delivered.
* Other art for sale located on the walls of The Oak Bistro; celebrating our ten years of a working relationship. See a quality wine with-on-the label MY key painting of The Oak! COVID19 SAFE
The expedition of 1609 took the Dutch vessel The Halve Maen to what is now known as the Hudson River, and Robert Juet of Limehouse, London, describes his journey in a journal all the way to Albany (a place I once painted during a residency Up-State-New-York; the painting titled ‘Lamb White Days’ of 1993 captures blizzard snow forest and my family history prior to Internet possibilities).
http://www.williamsart.co.uk/Williams_Art/Nicholas_Juett___Lamb_White_Days.html
Robert Juet’s account as a seasoned sailor with Captain Henry Hudson gave me the drive to explore deeper into those times. I found out about early exploration at the Scott Polar Research Institute as well as ‘internet trawling’. I joined societies and attended specialist lectures. Additional research and a lot of reading finally led to a visit at the Amsterdam Maritime Museum; then Lisbon with many more still to go.
ABOUT EXPLORERS
The expedition of 1609 took the vessel The Half-Moon with a mixed crew (English & Dutch) to what is now known as the Hudson River, and Robert Juett as Mate describes their journey all the way to Albany. The later and fateful 1611 voyage on The Discovery stranded sailors for a year in the southern part of Hudson Bay causing a mutiny. There is no log. Hudson's discoveries laid the groundwork for Dutch colonisation of the Hudson River region, as well as English land claims in Canada. I am conscious of the Inuit and their narrative, me to paint once I have achieved my ambition to be invited as a dyslexic artist to the Artic (sp).
SOCIETIES
Interestingly, haven joined societies for lectures linked to Ernest Shackleton the same skills of survival (well-documented) they equally apply to past explorers and that way extends my appreciation of Arctic sailing. In some way this knowledge filters into Art.
F.Y.I - EXHIBITIONS CREDENTIALS / PAST HAPPENINGS
solo Clare Hall, Cambridge Uni (2019-20); group Clare Hall, Cambridge Uni (2017); solo King’s College, Cambridge Uni (2016); Marshall’s International Airport, Cambridge (2015); Picasso Gallery, Washington DC (2011); Meller Merceux Gallery, Oxford (2011); Williams Art, Cambridge (2011); Reok Museum of Contemporary Art, Szeged, Hungary (2010); ADC Theatre, “Portrait of Dorian Gray in NYC” Cambridge (2010); i2Gallery, Saffron Walden (2009); Primavera, Cambridge (2008); Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn (2008); Broughton House Gallery, Cambridge (2007); & Royal Automobile Club, London (2006); Byard Art, Cambridge (2005); Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2004); Salon des Arts, London (2004); Royal Opera House, London (2003); Ace Gallery, New York (2002); Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia (2001); Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (2000); Alternative Museum, New York (1998); Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago (1993); Painting Center, New York (1993); Ace Gallery, Los Angeles (1990); New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (1987); “Façade” Carlyle Sq, Chelsea, London (1986); London Rd. Art Gallery, Reading Uni (1985); The Great Hall & “Facade Performance” Reading Uni (1985); “The 4Arts Group” Caius College Gallery, Cambridge Uni (1982); Peterhouse, Cambridge Uni (1981); Cambridge College of Arts & Technology (1980):- now Anglia Ruskin Uni. & The Cambridge School of Art.
F.Y.I - PAST RESIDENCIES
2010 XVII. International Art Camp, Cserszegtomaj, Balaton, Hungary / Invited Guest Artist; created art along with artists all Eastern-Block;
2002-10 Wysing Arts Centre, Bourn, Cambridgeshire, Great Britain / Onsite Studio Artist; private studio to be one’s self and loud music
1993-4 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York, New York State, USA / The Space Program; loft space living as a painter with painters
1992 St. Edna Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts Austerlitz, New York State / Juried Residency; one month sleep and fed free in deep winter snow
1986 Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Paphos, Cyprus / Summer Program; three month in heat sharing with other Brit artists
1985 Clay Studios & Print Workshops, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK / Studio Artist; next door to the police station weird space to work
F.Y.I - AWARDS of RESPECT
2019 Milton Road Library / Friends Of, Cambridge / Commission for epic scale painting tribute to past and new facility for the public
2016 Anglia Ruskin University / Alumni, Cambridge & Chelmsford / Contribution to Culture Award nominee & shortlist prize winner
2015 Local Government of the City of Szeged & Hammido Art School, Szeged / Youth Festival Twin Cities Teacher Award for primary school project
2010 Cambridge Szeged Society & Reök Museum, Cambridge / Szeged / Travel & Costs Award as twin city recipient and exhibitor
2008 Addenbrooke’s Hospital, ATC Atrium, Cambridge / Exhibit Loan long-term; and pictures Purchase Grant
2008 Szeged Bridge Fair, Guest Artist of the Cambridge Szeged Society Delegation / Travel Award to Hungary
2005 Byard Art, Cambridge / Awarded Second Prize, cash-prize and pending solo exhibit
2003 Royal Opera House, Nominated by Isobel Johnstone, Senior Curator, Arts Counci / Awarded a commission for public access Art Project; supported by Searcy’s
2002 East England Arts & Cambridgeshire District Council, Cambridge / Exhibit Grant at Wysing Arts Centre for solo show of USA past pictures
1995 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Brooklyn / Arts & Humanities Grant, cash-prize
1994 Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York / One Year Artist in Residence / Tribeca; free huge loft-studio
1993 John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation & Illinois Arts Council, Chicago / Exhibit Grant; for non for profit exhibit space and two person exhibition
1992 St. Edna Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz / Artist in Residence; month free studio including accommodation and cooking
1992 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago / Awarded ‘Faculty Position’ BA summer school; prestigious as a ‘real’ contract
1992 Union League Civic & Arts Foundation, Chicago / Visual Arts Scholarship (Double Honours); juror’s took one from another for me
1988 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago / Traveling Fellowship (Hon. Mention); allowed me to travel to Los Angeles
1987 Rotary Foundation, Evanston (USA), Reading/Cambridge Rotary Club (UK) / Rotary Fellowship (Ed Harris Fellow Scholar); all paid tuition and living
1986 Carlyle Square, Chelsea, London / attended by H.R.H. Princess Alexandra / Façade Gala (my painting echoes of artist John Piper & composer Sir William Walton)
1985 Council & Senate for Arts Funding, University of Reading / Exhibit Grant for Façade; advertised by BBC radio with interview
1982-4 National Student’s Union Funding, University of Reading / Grant for The 4Arts Group founded by myself with 600 members (at £1)
FINI the TRUTH
I am a different artist who speaks his mind. “If a picture can be removed in the World would you miss it? If you don’t then it is a generic image of less reputation more repetition, and of shear boredom to me, you’re welcome to enjoy but it isn’t Art – is it. “