Here you can find details of projects I have undertaken during my career as a professional artist/illustrator. I am currently working on several private commissions.
1994 Iguana painting in ‘Best of British Illustration’ exhibition at Mall Galleries, London and Creative Review ‘images 19′ book.
1995 Set of nine line drawings to illustrate leaflet for Kimmeridge Bay Marine Nature Reserve, Dorset. (English Nature)
1995 ’Nature in Art’ exhibition group show, Gloucester
1995 Siberian Tiger painting for t-shirt design, Care for the Wild (charity)
1996 Care for the Wild commission elephant and calf for t-shirt
1996 Siberian tiger painting auctioned at London Zoo to support ‘Tiger Week’
1996 Group exhibition at RSPB Minsmere
1997 Recipient of bursary from the Society of Wildlife Artists to attend John Busby’s seabird drawing course in Scotland
1997 Illustrations commissioned by ‘Wildlife of Britain’ magazine
1997 Commission from BBC Wildlife magazine for half-page painting for June edition (nesting Fulmars, Sark)
1997 Sale of paintings through ‘Sark Glass and friends’, the avenue in Sark
1998 Gannet studies, Bass Rock, Scotland for Society of Wildlife Artists exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
1998/9 Co-ordinator and tutor for painting holidays on Sark, in conjunction with ‘Island Holidays’ company, Scotland
2000 ’Art for the Millennium’ exhibition at Candie museum and art gallery, Guernsey. Studies of the solar eclipse, Sark.
2000 onward Tutor for the Sarnia Arts Group, Guernsey
2001 Galapagos Marine Iguana painting accepted for Society of Wildlife Artists annual show at Mall Galleries, London.
2002 Solo exhibition, Sula Gallery, Guernsey. Watercolours of the Channel Islands
2003 40 full-colour illustrations for Usborne Beginners ‘Caterpillars and Butterflies’ book
2003-2005 Showed and sold paintings of Sark through ‘The Land Gallery’ www.thelandgallery.com
2004 Self-published ‘Sark Sketchbook, journal of a local artist’
2004 Exhibition, Sark paintings for group show ‘Art at Work’ Coningsby Gallery, London
2006 Charcoal, Enniskerry waterfall, Adams auctioneers contemporary art auction, Dublin
2006-2009 Sale of work through ‘Summer House Gallery’ Sark
2009 (onward) Sale of work through La Maison Rouge Gallery, Sark
2009 JJ Fox group exhibition, Jersey and Guernsey
2010 Working as Project coordinator on Artists for Nature’s Sark project-ongoing.
Hello Rosanne
Hope first names O/K, if not sorry.
We just had a few days away in Sark, but missed your new gallery. We went round to have a look but on the wrong day. We saw you a while ago. Will have to order your sketchbook the £35 version looks good.
One day I’d like to commision an original if possible, I wondered if you’d consider a scene of the old lighthouse flashing a ruby red light, dont know what you thimk. Must have been a sight to see.
We stayed with your pal Briony who looked after us well at BeauSejour. We had a grand time, but never was long enough. Sad to se the Mayfield studio gone. That was a bit of history and I can only think of one similar place, in the UK anyway. You shouldnt have let it go!
Anyway we will be back some day I hope. Coll my wife is a Jersey girl, one of the Bisson family, her father was a Jersey potato farmer at St John, and as a result we have been visiting Sark and the other Islands off and on for the last while. I wish we could have a permanent holiday there!
Am in the same line of business as you are, but nearly had enough, recession etc.,
I have approx. 25 commissions ahead but mail order gets more and more difficult and we have relied on it to boost up the earnings. We plan to do one last calendar at Xmas then next year am 65 so I hope to retire from painting the waggons I normally do and get back to the sort of thing I started painting many years ago as an art student which was abstract/semi abstract work.
We met a couple of the carriage drivers going about and will maybe try a picture one of the days. It is my sort of thing in a way.
Good Luck and wishing you well with the lovely pictures.
Alan