1930 Born in Bury, Lancashire

1963 Started painting

1964 Moved to Cornwall

1968 Elected member of Penwith Society of Arts

1975 First solo exhibition, Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives

1978 Invited to show at the Artist Market Warehouse, Covent Garden, London

1979 Work selected for the Cleveland International Drawing Biennale

1979/80 Selected for TV Open Art Exhibition, The Brewhouse Theatre, Taunton and Newlyn Art Gallery

1982 Took tenancy of 2 Porthmeor Studios

1982 Work selected for Hayward Annual, London

1984/85 Work selected for TSW Open Touring Exhibition

1990 Included in 'Ten Etchings', a portfolio of etchings created to raise funds to build the proposed new Tate St Ives

1992 Founder member of Porthmeor Printmakers

1992 Work selected for TSW South West Open exhibition, Plymouth and Truro

1993 Commissioned by Tate St Ives to make an etching for the opening of the Gallery as one of the 'Porthmeor Printmakers'

1994 Conducted two workshops at Tate St Ives to coincide with the study display 'Peter Lanyon - Generation'

1995 Spring Exhibition, Newlyn Gallery, selected by Angela Flowers and Sandra Blow

1999 Spring Exhibition, Newlyn Gallery, selected by William Packer

2002 Invited artist at 'The Discerning Eye' exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2003 'Curator's Choice' Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth Cumbria

2003 'Nudes' Galerie Pelar, Greenport, New York

One-Person Exhibitions

1975 Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives

1976 Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives

1976 Newlyn Gallery

1979 Penwith Gallery (ten years work)

1979 Gilbert Parr Gallery, London

1979 Montpelier Studio, London (opening exhibition)

1982 Montpelier Studio, London

1984 Montpelier Studio, London

1986 Salthouse Gallery, St Ives

1987 Montpelier Studio, London

1988 Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath

1991 Montpelier Studio, London

1992 Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath

1993 Candover Gallery, Alresford, Hampshire

1994 Sims Gallery, St Ives

1997 Candover Gallery, Alresford, Hampshire

1998 Montpelier-Sandelson, London

2000 Candover Gallery, Alresford, Hampshire

2004 Maltby Art, Winchester