1936 Born near Birmingham
1949-52 Moseley School of Arts & Crafts
1952-57 Birmingham College of Arts & Crafts
1957-59 National Service with the Royal Artillery
1959 Taught part time at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts and Mid-Warwickshire School of Art
1964-72 Co-Director and Founder Ikon Gallery Birmingham
1968-71 Lecturer in Basic Studies Birmingham College of Art and Crafts
1971-82 Senior Lecturer in charge Experimental Workshop, City of Birmingham Polytechnic
1978-81 Member of East Midlands Arts Visual Arts Panel
1984-85 Fine Art Advisor, Nene College, Northampton
1982-86 Course Director, B.A. Fine Art, City of Birmingham Polytechnic
1986 Retired from full time teaching
1986-87 Artist in Residence, Nottingham University
1986-89 Visiting Artist, B.A. Fine Art, Trent Polytechnic
1987-88 Visiting Artist, Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University
1988-92 Visiting Artist, B.A. Fine Art, University of Central England
1997 Patron - Autumn in Malvern Festival
1998 Elected to membership of The Royal Watercolour Society (resigned 2001)
2001 Trustee George Jackson Educational Foundation
2014 Died Malvern, May 7th, 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1961/63 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1965/67/69 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1971/74/80 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1965/71 University of Birmingham
1965 Arden Gallery, Henley in Arden
1967 Portland Gallery, Leamington Spa
1968/71 Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham
1968 Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge
1971 Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Park, London
1976/79 Prescote Gallery, near Banbury, Oxfordshire
1977 Coracle Press, London
1977 Ibis Gallery, Leamington Spa
1983 Milton Keynes Exhibition Gallery & Nottingham Castle Museum
1983 Dan Sullivan Gallery, Bedford
1985 Open University, Milton Keynes
1985 The Stables, Wavendon
1986 University of Leicester
1986/87 University of Nottingham
1990/93 Malvern Festival Exhibition
1991 Nevill Gallery, Canterbury
1992/94 Anna-Mei Chadwick, London
1991/95 Malvern Festival Exhibition
1993 Gainsboroughs House, Sudbury, Suffolk
1993 Midlands Contemporary Art, Birmingham
1994/97 Art First, Cork Street, London
1994 St. Georges Brandon Hill, Bristol
1996/98/01 John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos
1998 Malvern Theatres (Opening season)
1999/00 Cowleigh Gallery, Malvern 'Real Prints' and Watercolours
2002 artLONDON solo with John Davies Gallery - Stand No.20
2003/05/06 John Davies, Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos
2007 Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
2008 Medici Gallery, London
2008/10-12 John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
2010 Finding Landscape, University of Birmingham
2011 Monnow Valley Arts, Walterhouse, Herefordshire
2011 Number Nine, The Gallery, Birmingham
2012 Shell House Gallery, Ledbury
2014 Skylight - Landscapes: Paul Nash & David Prentice, Worcester Museum & Art Gallery
2013-15/17 John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1956 Industrial Britain, Café Royal and Chenil Gallery, London. Prize
1957 Richard, Thomas & Baldwin, Café Royal, London
1958 Mixed Company, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1964 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
1965 Spring Exhibition, Bradford City Art Gallery
1965 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
1965 Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965 John Player Open, Midland Group, Nottingham
1966 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., U.S.A.
1966 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
1966 Spring Exhibition, Bradford City Art Gallery
1967 Piccadilly Gallery, London
1967 Spring Exhibition, Bradford City Art Gallery
1967 Contemporary British Painting & Sculpture, Albright Knox, New York
1967 John Player Open, Midland Group, Nottingham
1968/69 Axiom Gallery, London
1968-70 Arts Council Collection tour
1968/70 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Liverpool Art Gallery
1969 Curwen Gallery
1969 British International Print Biennale Bradford Art Gallery
1969 Arts Council of Northern Ireland Open, Belfast
1970 Eight English Printmakers Arts Council touring
1970 Three Plus Infinity, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1970/71 Artists International Association, London; Alfred East Gallery, Kettering
1970/71 Lisson Gallery, London
1971 Kunst der Partnerstadte, Frankfurt (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery)
1972 Editions Alecto International, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1976 New Work, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
1977 Midland Art Now, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1977 Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Open
1978 Miniatures, Coracle Press, London
1983 Works on Paper, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Gallery 1983 Birmingham College of Art Centenary Exhibition, Midlands Art Centre
1984 Twenty-One for Twenty-One, Ikon Gallery 21st, Birthday Exhibition 1984 Kites, Derby City Art Gallery
1985 Lamport Hall Painting Competition, Lamport Hall, Northants - Prize
1985 John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
1985/87/92/93/95/98/99/00 Royal Watercolour Society Bankside Gallery, London
1985/86/89 Laing Open, Mall Galleries, London
1986 From Plate to Paper, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
1986 Extra Mural, East Midlands Arts at Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering
1986/88 Birmingham Pastel Group - Prize
1987/88/92-95 Laing Open, Birmingham Post Building
1988 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
1988 In Flight Brighton Polytechnic; Portland Gallery,
Nottingham University; Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery Royal Airforce Museum, Hendon
1987/89 Abbott & Holder, London
1988/89 Constable Memorial Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre
1989/90/92/93/99/01/02 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London
1989 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
1989-98 Cowleigh Gallery, Malvern 1989 Paint the Town, City of Birmingham Centenary, R.B.S.A. - Prize
1989 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, SoHo, New York
1989/90 Ceri Richards Gallery, University College Swansea
1989-92 Pastel Society, Mall Gallery London - Prize (Featured artist '90)
1990 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
1990/92 Birmingham Pastel Group - Prize
1990 Nevill Gallery, Canterbury 1990 Five Artists, R.B.S.A.
1990 Pastel Society, Oaler Gallery, Bournemouth 1990 Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow Prize
1990 Fountain Fine Art, Llandeilo, Wales
1990-92/99 Summer Exhibition, Anna-Mei Chadwick
1990 New Gallery, Mumbles, Wales
1991 British Artists for the 1990s, R.B.S.A.
1991 Willowherb Studios Exhibition, R.B.S.A.
1991 Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Gallery
1991/92/95 New Gallery, Mumbles, Wales
1991 Cheltenham Group, Cheltenham Art Gallery
1992 Hunting/Observer Art Prizes, Mall Gallery: Edinburgh: Kimberlin Gallery, Leicester
1992 Malvern Open Drawing Competition
1992 Art in Nature, Nature in Art Gallery, Gloucestershire
1992 St. James's Gallery, Bath
1992/93 Leeds City Art Gallery and R.B.S.A.
1992 Watercolours from Birmingham: 150 Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
1992-94 Bradford on Avon Trust Exhibition
1993 Pastel Society, Mall Gallery London *resigned membership
1992 Silk Top Hat Gallery, Ludlow
1993 Hunting/Observer Art Prizes, Mall Gallery and Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
1993 Joie de Vivre, Midlands Contemporary Art
1993/94 Malvern Open Drawing Competition
1993 Bath Art Fair
1993/95/97/00 Medici Gallery, London
1993 Birmingham Pastel Society in Malvern, Cowleigh Gallery
1994 The Featured Land, Art First, London
1994 Duncan Campbell, London
1994 Summer Exhibition, Art First, London
1995 Art First, London Contemporary Art Fair
1995 Landscape at Large, Art First, London
1995/00 The Gallery Upstairs, Henley in Arden
1995 Birmingham Pastel Society National Exhibition Centre Birmingham
1995 Birmingham Pastel Society MAC, Cannon Hill, Birmingham
1995 William Gear: Past and Present Friends Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, an exhibition celebrating William Gear's 80th birthday
1995 The Christmas Show Art First, London
1996 R.B.S.A. Galleries, Birmingham; Art House, Manchester and Harewood House, Leeds Prize
1996 Oils Masterclass Cowleigh Gallery exhibition and book launch
1996 Anderson Gallery Broadway Birmingham Pastel Society
1996-98 Malvern Festival Exhibition Cowleigh Gallery, Malvern
1996/97 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition
1997 Three Years On Art First, London
1997 Birmingham Pastel Society Department of Art Univ. of Central England Prize
1997 The Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art London; Hunterian Museum Glasgow
1997 20th Anniversary Exhibition John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold
1997 Mall Galleries, London; Art House, Manchester; Phillips, Hepper House, Leeds; R.B.S.A. Galleries, Birmingham.
1997 Piers Feetham Gallery Chelsea Contemporary Landscape Drawings curated by William Packer art critic of the Financial Times
1997-98 The Open Drawing Show: Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education; University Lincolnshire & Hull
1999 Drawings & Watercolour Fair Park Lane Hotel, London (John Davies)
1999 Birmingham Pastel Society Department of Art University of Central England - Prize
1999 Mountain Wolverhampton Art Gallery
200-03 Number Nine The Gallery, Birmingham
2000 Royal College of Art Works on Paper Fair
2000 Real Prints Cowleigh Gallery
2000 The Cork Street Gallery with Anna-Mei Chadwick
2000 5th Open Print Exhibition Royal West of England Academy Bristol
2000 London Lives Bankside Gallery London
2000 The Discerning Eye Invited Artist (Sally Bulgin)
2000 Real Prints Autumn in Malvern Festival
2000 Two Rivers Gallery Cheltenham
2001 Birmingham Pastel Society Department of Art, University of Central England: Mall Galleries, London; Leeds City Art Gallery;
2001 The Sculpture Gallery; Manchester Town Hall R.B.S.A. Gallery, Birmingham
2001 Surface Invention Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery works on paper to coincide with the opening of the Water Hall Gallery
2001 As Far As The Eye Can See - A Landscape Exhibition, Richard Attenborough Centre, University of Leicester
2002 Made in Birmingham R.B.S.A Gallery Birmingham
2002 The Discerning Eye Invited Artist (Richard Littejohn)
COMMISSIONS
1960-63 Three murals for Flowers Breweries, Stratford-upon-Avon
1972 Murals & Display System, Ove Arup/Department of Physical Metallurgy, University of Birmingham
1978 Royal Agricultural Show International Pavilion, Alfa Laval Stand
1988 Paintings for the J .M. W . Turner Ward, Battle Hospital, Reading Southern Artlink commission
1994 Ross-on-Wye Swimming Pool Mural shortlisted
1994 Clwyd Fine Arts Trust River Dee Project shortlisted
1995 West Mercia Police Headquarters, Hindlip Hall two 5' x 5' oils
1997 Watercolour of Mathon Court for Ninky Phipps' birthday
PRIZES
1955 Industrial Britain Richard Thomas and Baldwin Painting Prize
1958 Royal Artillery Painting Prize (during National Service 1957-1959)
1985 Lamport Hall Painting Competition First Prize
1988 Birmingham Pastel Society Everyman Award
1989 City of Birmingham Centenary Exhibition Winsor & Newton Sponsors Prize
1989 Pastel Society, London First Prize Daler-Rowney Award
1990 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - First Prize £15,000
1990/92 Birmingham Pastel Society Everyman Award
1996 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Third Prize £1,000
1997/99 Birmingham Pastel Society First Prize Daler- Rowney Award
1997 Cheltenham Open Drawing Competition - Commended
1999 Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition - Second Prize£5,000
2007 Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times - Third Prize
2011 Short listed for House of Lords, No 1 Millbank
PRINCIPAL COLLECTIONS
Miami-Dade Community College, Florida House of Commons Acquisition Committee
Betty Parsons, New York Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Rank Organisation Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Mayer Collection
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Arts Council of Great Britain Charterhouse Bank Ltd
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
Museum of Modern Art, New York (member's gallery)