The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition was able to go ahead in the flesh this year, and this self portrait was awarded the William Lock Portrait Prize "for the most timeless portrait with a real feeling for paint and it's aesthetic potential."

After long delays and postponments due to Covid, the placements from The International 2020, hosted by Portrait Society of America, were announced on 8th May 2021. This self portriat was awarded First Prize Painting.

Rumination was awarded a Staff Award in the short list for the ARC Salon in the US. 

This self portrait has been selected as a finalist among another 22 paintings, from 2600 entries. I along with the portrait will go to Orlando in the autumn to see if the painting has won a further prize at the Art of the Portrait conference. 

With my entry Rumination at the opening of the BP Portrait Award 2019, on 11th June. 

The Reading Lesson has been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America in this years International competition, 2019,

Delighted to win the 2018 New Generation Award at the RSMA, with this paitning painted on the dunes at Bamburgh, with the ranging cattle. 

At the AGM of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in May 2018, I gained enough votes to be elected to full membership of the RP. I had been a candidate for a long while so I'm thrilled to have been accepted into the society.

Delighted to have been awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America's "The Art of the Portrait" 2018, with this portrait of Edd and Mango, "Companions"