Trains, Boats and Cranes, comes to Peterborough City Gallery

June 3rd – August 6th 2023

Many of you will have known me as an Art Teacher at AMVC as pupils or parents. I have to say that those fifteen years at the school were the highlight of my teaching career. All through that time I made art in my spare time and enjoyed making exemplar prints and paintings to demonstrate a particular process or project. Retirement in 2007 gave new latitude to my artwork and that allowed me to follow my nose in whatever directions came to mind.

Much of that new work was based on local scenes: initially the buildings of Northborough and Glinton. The “Northboro’ Prospect” print was well received and sired an edition of the St. Andrews image to raise funds for Church renovation. Other threatened buildings - the local Signal Boxeswere my next focus and there too, I became involved with local activist groups who strived to save them.

I had my first one-man show at John Clare Cottage in the summer of 2014 and in 2017 held an exhibition in the Yarrow Gallery in Oundle and in 2018 at the Alfred East Gallery in Kettering. These were big exhibitions with 90 or more works.

In 2023 I was invited to show my work in Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, where there is a strong focus on my Canal prints. I offered the exhibition to Peterborough City Gallery and was delighted when they accepted. That exhibition will have many more local works and quite a few of the individual pieces created during my teaching career.

The three rooms in the gallery will give me space to show and explain the different threads of my work and its links to other artist’s work. The City Gallery is at the rear of the Peterborough Museum in Priestgate.

I hope you will take a trip into town and take a look at 50 years of my work. There are lots of original prints for sale (framed and unframed), starting at £10 for a handmade linocut or drypoint. There are cards as well. Monies from the exhibition sales will go to Cancer Research UK.