1975–78

Trained at Central School of Art & Design as a painter

1978–79

Worked with John Latham and others at APG (Artist Placement Group)

1980

Postgrad at the Roehampton Institute/Tate Gallery

1996

Masters at University of Northumbria

1980–99

Taught art in schools and colleges including Cumbria College of Art and Design (now University of Cumbria) Course leader, Foundation Fine Art, and University of Central Lancashire

Now lives and paints in Cumberland.

Selected Group Exhibitions

1973 DLI Museum & Gallery, Durham: Annual Open Exhibition

1976 Bridge Gallery, London

1977 Bridge Gallery, London

1977 Royal Jubilee Prints Exhibition, London

1978 AIR Gallery: Windsor & Newton Exhibition

1978 Degree Show, Central School of Art & Design

1979 Kubba & Co., London

1980 Post-Graduate Exhibition, Whitelands, London

1994 Tullie House Gallery, Carlisle: 2nd Open Exhibition

1994 Chatton Gallery, Northumberland

1994 FACE Exhibition, Hallbankgate, Cumbria

1994 Cumbria College of Art & Design, Carlisle: 'Works on Paper'

1994 Crescent Gallery, Belfast: 'Works on Paper'

1996 University of Northumbria: MA Interim Exhibition

1997 The Tannery, Bermondsey, London: MA Exhibition

1997 University of Northumbria: MA Exhibition

1999 'Magnetic' a touring exhibition of northern artists:

2015 Caldewgate Gallery, Carlisle: 'Caldewgate 1991-2015'

2016 'Making A Mark', Polka Dot Gallery, Nairobi.

Solo Exhibitions

1985 Minories Gallery, Colchester: 'Drawings In Paint'

1991 Abbott Hall Gallery, Kendal: 'Strangers at a Wedding & Other Paintings'

1994 Isis Gallery, Melmerby: 'Falling From The Sky and Other Pictures of Mortality'

1996 Warehouse Gallery, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal: 'Pictures From A Marriage' (with my wife Rafaele Appleby)

1996 Gracefield Gallery, Dumfries: 'The Act of Naming'

1996 'Drawn Ground': Large-scale landscape drawing (9,000 sq feet), sited at Bitts Park, Carlisle, as part of Cumbria Visual Arts Festival 1996

1996 City-Centre Drawing, Carlisle, Part of Cumbria Visual Arts Festival 1996

Public Lectures

1996 The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal: 'Message And Meaning'

1996 Cumbria College of Art & Design: 'Message And Meaning'

Collections

1977 Royal Jubilee Prints Collection: 2 etchings

1994 Eden Arts: 1 lithograph

2008 Tate Gallery: Archive photographs and documents, as part of the APG archive