AWARDS/PRIZES

1956 Winner, National Exhibition of Children’s Art
1963 Middlesbrough College of Art, Drawing prize
1967-68 Artist in Residence, Scott Bader, Northamptonshire
1980 Artist in Residence, Humberside LEA
1988 Prize Winner, Watercolours of the North
1993 Hunting Art Prize, shortlisted for 1st prize
1994-95 St. Helens Open, Cork Street Gallery prize winner
1996 Manchester Academy, painting prize
1998 Chichester Open, People’s prize
1998-99 Hunting Art prize, Manchester prize and shortlisted for 1st prize
1999 Chester Open, 1st prize
Laing Open, prize winner
Bankside Gallery, WatersideCentury 21, Daler Rowney 1st prize, The Artists prize, and The Ashdown Gallery prize for best landscape
2000 Associate Member, Royal Watercolour Society
2001 Member, Manchester Academy of Fine Art
2001 Hunting Art prize, Manchester prize and shortlisted for 1st prize
2005  Penguin Artists Book Cover Prize
2007 International Painting Prize, Chichester
2010 Sunday Times Watercolour Prize-winner
2012 Prizewinner , The Threadneedle Painting Prize. Mall Galleries , London
2013 Turner Watercolour Prize
2014 Fabriano International Watercolour Prize