| PERSONAL DETAILS |
| Born |
25th March 1956 |
| Profession |
Artist |
| Status |
Married with three children |
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Member, Royal Society of Portrait Painters |
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Welsh language learner since 1990 |
| EDUCATION |
| 1974-75 |
Corsham, Bath Academy of Art |
| 1973-74 |
Northwich, Foundation Studies |
| 1967-73 |
Hale Barns, St. Ambrose College |
| 1962- 67 |
Northwich, St. Wilfred's Primary |
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
| 1996-Present |
Artist. Commissioned and non-commissioned work in oils, water-colour
and drawing media, metal, wood and mixed media. Visiting lecturer
Coleg Powys. (May 2000) Carved wooden Bench Llanfihangel Millennium
Committee. (Nov 98) Artist in residence Coleg Powys. GNVQ
Art and Design drugs awareness campaign in conjunction with
Powys Health & Dyfed Powys Police. (June 98) Mural on the
theme of Melangell with children of Ysgol Llanfihangel and
local people. Funded by Calouste Gulbenkian/Festival of the
Countryside. (June 97) Four part mural with children of Ysgol
Llanfihangel. (June 96) Workshop leader Arts Connectin/Powys
County Council. Drawing, painting, design, mask making and
sculpture with children from local primary schools. Work shown
in town carnival and Eisteddfod. Video interviews with 200
children.
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| 1986-94 |
Artist/Designer. Set up DKB studio London in 1986 employing
staff of 4. Worked mainly in the music industry designing
record sleeves and associated marketing and merchandising
campaigns (Bryan Ferry, Pink Floyd, Fine Young Cannibals,
Alison Moyet, ABC, Scritti Politti, Sony, Virgin, Phonogram,
EMI etc.) Also corporate identities, book, magazine and poster
design, illustration, 3D design and making, cartoon strips
(EMAP, Palace Pictures, Link House, Greenpeace, Paul Howie,
etc.)
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| 1979-85 |
Artist/Designer with Malcolm Garrett at Assorted Images,
London. Designs for the music industry (Duran Duran, Culture
Club, ABC, Scritti Politti, The Cult, Virgin, London, CBS,
Radar, Dindisc, EMI, Phonogram etc.) Book, magazine and poster
design (Eel Pie, NME, New Sounds New Styles). Corporate identities
(London, Partisan, Carburettor Centre). Illustration and cartoons
(NME, Bike, Superbike etc.)
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| 1976-78 |
Artist/Illustrator. Rolling exhibition Guilders Gallery,
Bath. Designer/Illustrator (Gallery Five, Christian Aid, Global
Village Crafts, Castle Cary Press etc.)
Casual Work: Gardener, gravedigger, forklift truck driver
etc. |
| MAJOR PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS |
- Sir Brian Smith
Vice Chancellor Cardiff University
- Malcolm Thyne
Headmaster Fettes College
- Sir Dominic Cadbury Chairman
Cadbury Scweppes
- Professor John Cash CBE
President Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
- David McMurray
Headmaster Oundle School
- Major Geoffrey Crook
Controller Royal Pioneer Corps Association
- His Honour Judge Humphrey Lloyd QC
- Major General G W Field CB OBE
Resident Governor H M Tower of London
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| OTHER COMMISSIONS |
- 23 Pioneer Regiment RLC, Bicester
- Mercedes Benz, Stuttgart
- Severn Trent Water, Birmingham
- Fink Floyd, London
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| EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS |
| 2000 |
MALL GALLERIES London Royal Society of Portrait Painters KALENDERSCHAU 2000 Stuttgart First Prize Kodak Fotokalender
- Preis 2000 MALL GALLERIES London/TRAVELLING Peoples Portraits
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| 1999 |
MALL GALLERIES London Royal Society of Portrait Painters
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| 1998 |
MALL GALLERIES London Royal Society of Portrait Painters ORIEL 31 Newtown Annual Open Exhibition, Highly Commended Y TABERNACL (Museum of Modern Art Wales) Machynlleth Annual
Open Exhibition Highly Commended LLYN EFYRNWY Powys Sculpture Trail funded by Severn Trent
Water
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| 1997 |
Y TABERNACL (Museum of Modern Art Wales) Machynlleth Joint
Exhibition
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| 1996 |
Y TABERNACL (Museum of Modern Art Wales) Machynlleth Annual
Open Exhibition First Prize NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY London BP Portrait Awards. Jack
a Morley Richards, Llanfihangel (oils) Voted most popular
painting by visitors to the exhibition ADNODDAU CYMRU Llanfyllin International Sculpture Symposium LLYN EFYRNWY Powys Sculpture Trail
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| 1995 |
ARTS COLLECTION Llanfyllin ORIEL 31 Newtown Annual Open Exhibition, Highly Commended
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| 1989 |
DIAMOND RECORD SLEEVE AWARDS Brussels Nominee
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| 1988 |
DIAMOND RECORD SLEEVE AWARDS Brussels Nominee
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| 1986 |
HAMILTONS GALLERY London Creative Futures (Sleeves, posters
and paintings) DIAMOND RECORD SLEEVE AWARDS Brussels Nominee MUSIC WEEK AWARDS London
First Prize Album Sleeve
Third Prize Album Sleeve
First Prize Single Sleeve
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| 1985 |
MUSIC WEEK AWARDS London
First Prize Single Sleeve |
| INTERESTS |
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People, family and friends. Motorcycles, mountaineering,
gardening, reading. I have an uneducated interest in philosophy. Art History. I have a passionate interest in painting. I
feel there is too much made of the (arbitrary and artificial)
divide between representation and abstraction. I believe there
can be good painting and bad. I find great inspiration before
the works of Van Eyck, Titian, ElGreco, Vermeer, Velasquez,
Hals, Rembrandt, Constable, Turner, Cotman, Corot, Manet,
Gaugin, Cezanne, Marc, Picasso, Miro, Ernst, Klee, Sutherland,
Rothko, Beuys, Tapies... I once heard art defined as primary research. I aim in painting
to make something solid in 2 dimensions, not as an illusion
of reality but by learning and employing a vocabulary of marks
to establish a work that does not rely entirely on sources
extant in the real world for its validity. I do not believe
that holding a figurative element precludes this. |
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