Michael’s work embraces a traditional approach of portraiture and landscape with a delicate mannerist feel. His technique employs oil, gold leaf, collage and watercolour to develop atmospheric compositions.
Michael has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad and his work is held in many private and public collections. Mary Martin Gallery is his first representation in the United States.
EDUCATION 1982 - 86 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1989 Royal Overseas League, London (prize winner).
1989,1990, 1991, 1992, 1995 Royal Watercolour Society, London.
1990, 1992, 1996, 1999 Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition, London.
1990,1992, 1993, 2007 Royal Society of British Artists, London.
1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998 Royal Institute of Painters in Water colours, London.
1991-94,1998, 2014 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, London.
1990, 1992, 1996 Singer-Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition , London.
1992, 1996, 2007, 2008, 2014 "The Discerning Eye", Mall Galleries, London (prize winner).
(2008 "The Discerning Eye", Mall Galleries exhibitor by invitation. {six works}.
1994, 1995 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1994 Waterman Fine Art, London.
2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011 Adam Gallery, London & Bath.
2010, 2012, Panter& Hall, London.
2005 Arcadia Fine Art, New York.
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AWARDS
2007 Meynell Fenton award, 'Discerning Eye'.
1989 Countess Driscoll-Spalletti Prize at the Royal Overseas League.
1991 Short list for Carroll Award at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
1991 Short list for Young Artist Award at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.
1992 Daler-Rowney Prize Royal Watercolour Society.
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COLLECTIONS
Mr Johnny Depp
Ms. Vanessa Paradis
Collection Apollo Magazine
The Newspaper Society, London(Portrait of Sir Frank Rogers, commissioned by the Society)
Collection Mr Alexander Monroe
Baron Patten of Barnes.(Ex. British Govenor to Hong Kong)
Mr Peter Riddell CBE (Journalist, Author and Senior Fellow at Institute of Government)
