I am very pleased to have been able to enter a painting to this year's exhibition of the Ulster Society of Women Artists held at the Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast. It's a great venue and there is much to see in the exhibition - something for everyone. There are also prizes... and I was delighted that my painting won two - awarded by the commercial art gallery sponsors. Firstly, a very generous weeks art residency in France at Hambly & Hambly's amazing property there. And, secondly, a wonderful invitation to participate in a small group show at Gormleys Belfast art gallery some time next...

I am so pleased to have a painting in this very special exhibition organised by Auto Amor, John Martin Gallery, London and Spirit Studios on the Suffolk Coast.

Artists were invited to spend a single day in a landscape that matters to them and create an artwork in response.

the exhibition will be in Spirit Studios,Suffolk 4th July - 1st August 2026.

Please tap on little arrow below to see the painting.

The Embassy of Ireland, The Netherlands, in partnership with Hamilton Gallery Sligo and Pulchri Studio, The Hague, are exhibiting new paintings by invited artists who are resident either on the island of Ireland or in The Netherlands.

The exhibition is themed on Carrying the Songs a poem by Irish poet Moya Cannon. The poem is a prescient meditation on how music and song can be one of very few things people bring with them when forced from their homes, or to abandon their native country. 

I am very happy indeed to have had two paintings selected for the exhibition in the Hague and later in...

This is how the RHA describe the show...

'..Join us next summer for the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition in association with McCann FitzGerald featuring painting, print, sculpture, drawing, photography, mixed media and architectural models. Irelands' largest and longest-running open submission exhibition will be open to the public from Monday 25 May to Sunday 9 August with free admission, at all times.

With the largest artistic prize fund available to artists, across different medium, the RHA Annual exhibition...

The exhibition celebrates the work of over 20 contemporary artists based in Northern Ireland and celebrates the richness and diversity of artistic talent across the region.

We enjoy putting these exhibitions together, we are very picky, we’ve gone through hundreds of pieces, we said all this last time (and the time before), we like that it forces us to look at other people’s art a little bit more, that it makes us explore people just a little more, that we’re forced to get to know the artists who make the art just a little more than we probably would if we weren’t curating these shows. Art excites and I hope that this exhibition excites you. It doesn’t really matter about the detail here, it doesn’t...

I am delighted to have  a painting selected as a Finalist in this wonderful Award established by Hambly & Hambly fine art gallery at Dunbar House in Enniskillen,N.Ireland.

The work of all finalists will be available to see in an on-line exhibition commencing 17th March 2026 and in real life at the gallery in Dunbar House from 17th April 2026.

I am delighted to be participating in this special exhibition at The Island Centre, Lisburn with a painting "Listening in the Shining Morning'.

The exhibition runs from 13 January 2026-14 February 2026. (please click the arrow below to see the painting)

This open competition marks the centenary of the birth of artist Anna Cheyne (1926 - 2002), and honours
the outstanding achievements of her career.
Anna, who was a resident of Lisburn, exhibited

widely throughout Britain and Ireland, and from the 1980s participated annually in both t-Oireachtas and the Royal Ulster Academy exhibitions. In...