Arts, Sports, Media (synopsis 1)

PAINTING

2003 Ist solo exhibition at the Preservation Trust Museum, St Andrews; 'Women in the Garden no.1' used on the front cover of St Andrews University 'Hasta' magazine

2004 selected to represent Scotland in Channel 5's 'Big Art Challenge' and 'The Iraq War at Home' subsequently broadcast on Channel 5; exhibited at the Perth Art association's autumn show

2005 a selection of paintings shown at Gleneagles, Perthshire

2006 exhibited at Kilbryde Castle, Dunblane, and featured in the 'Perthshire Advertiser' weekend magazine

2007 exhibited at Edinburgh Airport and at the Agora Gallery, Manhattan, with a few works on sale at the Suzie Green Gallery in Richmond, London; a selection of works also filmed by RDF during a 'Ladette to Lady' shoot

2009 exhibited at the Byre Theatre, St Andrews

WRITING

1996-98 Editor of the McEwens of Perth 'Staff Magazine'

1999 'Selected Poems'; 'Single Fury'

2004 'Lord Deliver-Us, a personal history of Sir Charles Locock, Bt, Queen Victoria's favourite physician and celebrated accoucheur'; 'John Brakewell Baldwin, the biography of an Edwardian artist'; 'Casting Lines, a selection of hearty correspondence from a fellow angler'

2005 'Lush's Compendium'

2006 'Lush on Lush, a hundred paintings explained by the artist'

MUSIC

1975 sang bass with Carlisle Cathedral's 'Abbey Singers'

1980 graduated at the London College of Music and obtained a Fellowship in Composition; various pieces performed at the LCM and some works for harp at the London Dorchester and other hotels

1988 founded and directed the Newbury Chamber Consort putting on two concerts

1990-2004 sang or played double bass in the Perth Symphony Orchestra, Perth Cathedral Operatic Society, St Andrews Chamber Orchestra and St Andrews Renaissance Group

PHOTOGRAPHY

1987 gained LRPS diploma while running successful small school and portrait activity at Cheam School, Newbury; exhibited 'Images of Cheam' at the school

1989 shot cover for the cassette 'Chapel Music from Cheam School'