Awards and Residencies 2025 The Chris Benefield Memorial Award at Printfest (for Hay Meadow) 2024 Selected for Ironbridge Fine Arts 2024 Printmaking Competition & Exhibition 2021 People’s Choice award at Craft Open, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe 2019-2020 Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes: a funded project reprinting the wood engravings of celebrated artist, writer and founder of the museum, Marie Hartley MBE, and a year spent developing prints inspired by the Yorkshire Dales exhibited at the museum in 2020. 2017 Shortlisted for New Light Prize Exhibition 2015 Shortlisted for New Light Prize Exhibition 2014 Shortlisted for Flourish Printmaker of the Year 2012 Shortlisted for Flourish Printmaker of the Year 2012 Selected by Chrysalis Arts Development for residency at Ålgården Printmaking Studio and Gallery in Sweden as part of the Connections North Programme. 2010 One of three artists selected for ‘Migration’ residency at Nidderdale Museum. 2010 Extending Practice/Celebrating Place award from Chrysalis Arts Development.
Public Art Commissions 2018 4-metre collagraph on cotton for a public hospital in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. 2017 2 large scale monotypes for a public hospital in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. 2017 Linocut designs for a rubber stamp trail at Kilnsey Park Trout Farm 2014 Linocut designs for geocache trail at Scampston Hall celebrating 300 years since the birth of Capability Brown 2013 Collagraph for ‘Ward 37 Refurbishment’, York Hospital 2012 Linocut designs for Geo Art Cache trail in Hackfall Woods commissioned by Chrysalis Arts.
Solo Exhibitions (last 14 years) 2024 Within These Walls, The Folly, Museum of North Craven Life 2023 Within These Walls: Hay time in the Dales, The Dales Countryside Museum 2021 Encounters: In Search of the Wild, Masham Gallery. 2020 View from the Fells: In the Footsteps of Marie Hartley, The Dales Countryside Museum 2019 Waymarks, The Folly Museum of North Craven Life 2017 Within These Walls – print installation in a field barn for Grassington Festival. 2015 The Angel Inn, Hetton. 2011/12Hester Cox: An Artist’s Impression (A printmaker’s response to the Vale of York Viking Hoard),The Mercer Gallery
Two/Three Person Exhibitions (last 11 years): 2016-2025Collections, an ongoing project with ceramicist Charlotte Morrison and artist Josie Beszant. 2025 Charms and Murmurings, Ryedale Folk Museum 2019 Three Peaks Arts Trail, Horton-in-Ribblesdale Station 2018 Sunny Bank Mills Gallery 2017 Ryedale Folk Museum 2016 Masham Gallery 2014/2015 ‘New Ground’ with Charlotte Morrison, Inspired by…
Selected Group Exhibitions & Events (last 10 years) 2025 Saltaire Winter Makers Fair 2025 North Yorkshire Open Studios (& 2024, 2023, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010) 2025Printfest, Ulverston, Cumbria (also 2017, 2018 & 2019) 2025Great Print 10, Rheged, Penrith (also 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023) 2024Ironbridge Fine Arts 2024 Printmaking Competition, Ironbridge 2024Cry of the Curlew: Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes Kendal Museum, Kendal Museum nan Eilean, Lionacleit, Benbecula 2023/22Give Peat a Chance: Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes The Folly, Settle Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley 2022 Our Ingleborough: Various locations in North Craven District 2022 & 2021Craft Open, The Platform Gallery, Clitheroe 2020Crafted by Hand, Masham (also 2016, 2018 & 2019) 2019Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair, Wakefield (with Printmakers Circle) 2018 Watts Contemporary Gallery, Compton, Surrey 2018Craft Market Kendal, Cumbria 2018 West Dean Design and Craft Festival 2018 Art in the Pen, Skipton Auction Mart (& previous 6 years) 2018Printfest, Ulverston Cumbria 2018The Hepworth Print Fair with Printmakers Circle 2017New Light Art Prize Exhibition, Bowes Museum (and touring during 2018/19) 2017 Sheffield Print Fair 2017Craven Arts Christmas Exhibition, Skipton 2017 Printfest, Ulverston Cumbria 2017Art in the Pen, Thirsk Auction Mart (& 2016) 2016 Dean Clough Festive Art Fair 2016Sheffield Print Fair 2016 West Dean Design and Craft Fair, West Dean College. 2016 Hepworth Print Fair, Hepworth Museum, Wakefield. 2015 New Light Prize Exhibition, Bowes Museum. 2015Mirror Images: 4-centre synchronised international exhibition as part of Connections North Programme: Ratamo Print and Photography Centre in Finland Ålgården Print Workshop, West Sweden. Highland Printmakers, Scotland 10 selected independent North Yorkshire printmakers Inspired By…, England Toured: Brewery Arts, The Dales Countryside Museum & Caithness Horizons.
Television: BBC Countryfile, John Craven's Heritage Yorkshire - Yorkshire Champions aired 24th August 2025 BBC Countryfile, Yorkshire Dales Episode aired on 19th November 2024.
Journals: Pressing Matters, Issue.4; Yorkshire Life; The Great Outdoors; Resurgence 2023, Seasons February 2026 (Netherlands)
Books:Tracks in the Dark and Wall of Lies by Susan Parry (cover design) Impressed by Printmakers Circle Making Collagraph Prints by Suzie Mackenzie Beauty of the Beast, Mascot Media Wings Over Water, Mascot Media The Artful Hare, Mascot Media The Elegant Fowl, Mascot Media.
I regularly exhibit and sell my prints at various galleries and museums across the UK.