Biography

1949 Born in Brussels of an English father and Belgian mother.
1967 Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, studied under Guttuzo and Guccione
1968-71 New College, Oxford. Works intermittently at the Ruskin School of Art.
1972-74 Studies engraving with S.W.Hayter at Atelier 17 in Paris and later under the guidance of Aldo Crommelynck.
1995-97 Visiting professor at the New York School of Visual Arts, Savannah, GA

PORTRAITS INCLUDE:

Graham Greene • National Portrait Gallery, London.
Paddy Ashdown • MP House of Commons, London.
Pamela Harriman • United States Embassy, Paris.
Sir Michael Howard • King’s College, London.
Armand de Decker – Belgian Senate, Brussels.
Peter Matisse – Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris.
Lord Aldington
Martin Amis
Jean Baudrillard
Marisa Berenson
Helena Bonham-Carter
John Boorman Hon
Garech Browne
Ines de la Fressange
Brian Friel
Pierre Gagnaire
Seamus Heaney
Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue
John Hurt
Neil Jordan
Kenzo
Tom Kinsella
James Lord
Joanna Lumley
Derek Mahon
Sophie Marceau
Charlotte Rampling
Baron Guy de Rothschild
Kristin Scott-Thomas Jim Sheridan
Kevin Spacey
Colm Tóibín
Duchess of Westminster
Lord Westmorland

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS INCLUDE:

Lady Annunciata Asquith
Francis Bacon
Princesse de Beauvau-Craon
Prince Laurent of Belgium
John Boorman
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Nick Cave
Annette Chaplin
Lord Chichester
Vicomte Etienne Davignon
Ines de la Fressange
Diane von Furstenberg
Thomas Gibson
Rosalind & Matthew Gorin
Graham Greene
Pamela Harriman
John Hurt
Jean-Michel Jarre
Sir Michael and Lady Jay
James Lord
Joanna Lumley
Sophie Marceau
Charlotte Rampling
Baron David de Rothschild
Baron Eric de Rothschild
Lady Soames
Catherine Spaak
Kevin Spacey
Duke and Duchess of Westminster
Countess of Westmorland
Bill & Denise Whelan.

ONE-MAN SHOWS:

1971 Atelier 23 – Paris
1972 Nevill Pictures – London
1972 Atelier 23 – Paris
1974 Cercle d’Art – Brussels
1976 Rue Madame – Paris
1979 Galerie Brigitte Schéhadé – Paris
1980 Clarendon Gallery – London
1981 Galeria Fontanella Borghese – Rome
1983 David Ker Fine Art – London
1985 Quinton Green Fine Art – London
1988 Hallam Gallery – Londres
1989 Maurice Keitelman – Brussels
1995 Espace 14/16 rue de Verneuil – Paris
1995 La Galerie- Paris
1996 Lincoln Center – New York
1996 SVA – Savannah-USA
1997 Thomas Gibson Fine Art – London
1997 Monde des Arts – Paris
1998 Kim Iocovozzi Fine Art – Savannah – USA
1998 Telfair Museum – Savannah – USA
2000 Thomas Gibson Fine Art – London
2001 Tatiana Tournemine – Paris
2002 Kathy Reiner, Atlanta. USA 2004 Michel Roche – Paris
2005 Espace Paul Ricard – Paris
2008 Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah GA
2009 Combes Gallery – Paris

GROUP SHOWS:

1977 L’Angle Aigu – Brussels
1981 Exposition Internationale de la ville de Caen
1993 Royal Hibernian Academy – Dublin
1995 Galerie d’Art Contemporain- Montfort l’Amaury – France
1998 The Red Piano – Hilton Head – USA
2000 The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries – London 2001 Tatiana Tournemine, Paris
2001 Art Comparaison – La Baule – France
2002 Sylvan Gallery, Charleston – USA
2004 Erdreich White Fine Art, Boston 2005 Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris
2009 Mason Murer Fine Art – Atlanta
2009 Paul Kasmin – New York City 2012 Elephant Paname – Paris

MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS:

National Portrait Gallery, London

House of Commons, London
Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg – Austria
United States Embassy, Paris
The Senate, Brussels
Telfair Museum – Savannah, GA
Mona Bismarck Foundation – Paris

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Stephen Spender – Clarendon Gallery, London. Catalogue. 1980
Graham Greene – Galeria Fontanella Borghese, Rome. Catalogue. 1981
Frederic Tuten – Quinton Green Fine Art, London. Catalogue. 1985
Christopher Hitchens – Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London. Catalogue. 2000
James Lord – Plausible Portraits of James Lord – Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, New York. 2005
Béatrice Comte – Figaro Magazine, Paris. January 29th 2005
Adrian Dannatt – Palliser. Monograph. Editions du Regard, Paris. 2005
Derek Mahon – Jepson Center, Telfair Museum for the Arts, Savannah GA. Catalogue. 2008
Holly Koons McCullough – Jepson Center, Telfair Museum, Savannah GA. Catalogue. 2008
Adrian Dannatt – Art in America. March 2009