Solo Exhibitions

2016
RSA Award, a solo exhibition at The Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh

2015
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Homeland

2013
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; This Land Ate my Heart

2000
Laphroaig Whisky Distillery, Islay, Argyll

Selected Group Shows, Awards & Illustration

2016- 07
The Open Eye Gallery On a small scale; Edinburgh

2016
David Simon Contemporary, Bath; Bath Life

2015- 16
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Studio Selection

2015
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; 35 Years of the Open Eye

2016-2011,08
Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh

2016- 12,10,08
Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh

2015,12,11,10
Panter and Hall, London; Scottish Show

2015
Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition; Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh
Scottish Award; The Discerning Eye Exhibition; Mall Galleries, London
Bet Lowe Trust Grant; funding towards research and development
Society of Scottish Artists; Selected Group Exhibition; Wall Projects: Montrose; ‘Empire’
Invited Artist, The Lynn Painter- Stainers Prize for Creative Representational Painting, Mall Galleries; London
The City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Calton Hill; Site of Memory

2015-12,10,09,08
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolors Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh

2015,13,12
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries; London

2014
Winner of The Lynn Painter- Stainers Prize for Creative Representational Painting, Mall Galleries; London
BP Atrium Gallery, Aberdeen; Group Exhibition, Beyond Land
David Simon Contemporary, Bath; Group Exhibition, A New Light

2014,13,10,08
Aberdeen Artists Society Exhibition. (2013 awarded a ‘commendation’)

2013
Edinburgh Visual Artists Award; funding towards creation of new work at The Edinburgh Printmakers Studios
RSA Open Exhibition; Award RSA Scottish Arts Club Prize of a Solo Exhibition in 2016
Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition; Prize of a Solo Exhibition British Embassy in Slovakia
Shortlisted for The Jolomo Foundation Award for Scottish Landscape Painting

2013-2008
Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition, The Mitchell Library

2012
Short listed for RSA William Littlejohn Award for Innovation in water based media

2011
The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Inside Outside

2010
William J Macaulay/ Scottish Gallery Award, Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition
Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; Studio Selection

2009
Cuthbert Award; Most Distinguished Painting by a New Young Artist, Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition
Paisley Art Institute Annual Exhibition, Paisley Museum and Art Galleries

2008
Langside College Watercolour Award, Royal Glasgow Institute Annual Exhibition

2007 (2007 moved to Edinburgh)
Group Exhibition Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, Larnaca, Cyprus

2007,06
Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Mall Galleries, London

2002
Federation of British Artists Scholarship to The British School, Rome
National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Launch of Laphroaig Whisky Web Site, www.laphroaig.com
Allied Domecq commission Illustrations for 2 sets of labels with Laphroaig Whisky for the Erskine 2000 Appeal
Allied Domecq commission 12 colour & 12 black and white illustrations for Ltd Laphroaig Whisky calendars

1995
Vogue/ Sotheby’s/ Beaton Award for Illustration
Group show at the Hanover Galleries, Liverpool

1993
Original Art Works commissioned to market productions throughout 1993/94 at The Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool
Laing Open Art Competition
Exhibition of Irish Artists, Bluecoat Chambers; Liverpool

Publications & Reviews

August 2015
Zonearts.au, ‘In Conversation’


18 January 2015
Scotland on Sunday, Spectrum pg. 70 Designer Q&A


June 2014
Artists & Illustrators Magazine; pgs. 46-49 Talking Techniques


5 March 2013
The Scotsman, pgs. 32-33 ‘Nine artists shortlisted for Jolomo Prize

22 Nov 2011
The Scotsman, Art Reviews RSA Open: Duncan MacMillan

Nov 2010
The Scotsman, Art Reviews RSA Open: Duncan MacMillan

July 1999
Artists & Illustrators Magazine; pgs. 42-43 Corporate Commissions, ‘Whisky Galore’