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Bio

Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lives & works in Wiltshire, UK

 

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 Netherlands
1986-1993
Portraits, Murals , Pen and ink , Coloured pencil commissions for various private clients Holland
 
 Design children's room , including wallpaper and fabric design and birth announcement cards.
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Collection of drawings sold to Interior Design Company Heinz Roggen.
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UK
1993-2002

Collection of drawings sold to London Gallery 

( Julia Boston Antiques).

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1994 Group exhibition Victoria Gallery Bath.

1994-2000:

Mural Leonard Cheshire Care home Chippenham.

Various portraits for private clients.

2000-Teaching Art course.

2000- Several murals private client Wiltshire.

2002-Several murals private client Wiltshire ( Stuart Pearce).

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UK

2002-2015

Due to personal circumstances ( divorce and death in family  plus severe illness) , break from art work .

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UK

2016 .

Private commission Cindy Levenson Design .

Commission for artwork for website " Parrot and Lilly".

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Several sales of water colours and pen and ink drawings to various clients via Instagram

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Charcoal drawing through second round of National Open Art Competition , and sold to one of the organisers. 

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UK

2017

Painting in Josh Lilley Gallery, Fitzrovia for One Night Gala.

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UK

2018

Commission Lady Bamford flower painting .

Painting in White Horse Art Gallery Open Exhibition.

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Various commissions from clients in Japan,

and in the UK.

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Sale of painting to designer Tone Alexander, South Africa

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UK

2019

Sale of flower painting to Lady Bamford  

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Various sales and commissions to and for  clients in Singapore, Germany and the US, ,children's portraits for clients in Singapore and Germany.

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Dog portraits for clients in the UK, Belgium and Germany.

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UK

2020

Donated painting to raise funds for the Autralian Red Cross and the Australian bushfires of 2020 via the Art& Creative Auction.($101,800 raised in total),

to raise funds for Wildlife Victoria, The  Australian Red Cross and WWF to help with the devastation of wildlife due to the Australian Bushfires.

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Donated painting to be sold at the Wild At Heart Foundation Exhibition to raise funds for the Wild At Heart Foundation (£20 000 raised ).

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Series of postcard sized water colour dog portraits sold worldwide with 50% going to foodbanks local to the buyer.

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Oil paintings, and watercolours sold under the Artist Support Pledge ( supporting other artists by pledging to buy their work once you have sold for £200).

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Several dog portraits commissions.

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Watercolour sales proceeds donated to the George Floyd Memorial Fund.

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Four portraits of NHS workers painted under #NHSportraitsforheroes.

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Portrait Displayed on Google Arts www.artsandculture.google.com/healthcare heroes

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Watercolour paintings sale proceeds donated to Moira refugee camp in Greece.( www.choose.love )

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Several portrait commissions.

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Oct.2020 Bath Society of Artist Winner of the Best Drawing Prize at the Open Exhibition.

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UK

2021

Four portraits of care workers , under #portraitsforhealthheroes .

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Series of postcard sized water colour portraits of dogs to raise funds for Spice, a very ill dog ( monies raised £10 000)

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Private portrait commissions and sales of landscapes, both oil paintings as well as pastel drawings.

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Series of dog/ cat  portrait commissions.

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UK

2022

Work donated for charity under the initiative " One of many postcards ".

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Paintings sold under " Give With Art" with 50% of proceeds gong to Ukrainian Relief , and under the Tolstoy Edit three paintings donated with 100% going to the Ukrainian Red Cross, one painting auctioned by the Bath Society of Artists with 100% going to the Disasters Emergency Committee.

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Some landscape and pet portrait commissions.

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UK

2023

Watercolour drawing sales proceeds donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee to help the victims of the earthquake in Turkey .

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Landscape paintings with village view sold

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Education
 

1978 - 1985

Academie Minerva ( Fine Arts Academy ) Netherlands

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