Introduction
Trained as an art historian, but spent many years combining writing with painting and illustration. Work includes murals, watercolours, lithograph and acquatint, and drawing in colour and black and white for reproduction. As author, has written on twentieth century British architecture and on the artist Eric Ravilious (2003). Two books on the design of book jackets. Has long involvement with the Twentieth Century Society. Currently Reader in Architecture and Cultural History, University of Greenwich .
Biography
Exhibitions: At Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge, annually from 1979 to 1984, and then at Judd Street Gallery, London until 1990. Exhibition �A Survey of Devon and Cornwall � at Cotehele house, Cornwall , 1983. Group exhibitions: The Long Perspective (National Trust/Thomas Agnew, 1987); RI Open Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, 1990 & 1991.
Print publications: Seaside Lithographs, 1986; The English Tivoli, 1988; The Marches, 1989
Author: (selected publications) Shop Fronts, 1989; Oliver Hill, Architect and Lover of Life, 1989; Modern Block Printed Textiles, 1992; John Campbell: Rediscovery of an Arts and Crafts Architect, 1997; Nature in Design, 1999; Modern Britain 1929-1939 (editor and chief contributor), 1999; Serge Chermayeff, 2001; Eric Ravilious: Imagined Realities, 2003; The Twentieth Century House in Britain, 2004; Modern: The Modern Movement in Britain, 2005; International Arts and Crafts (contributor), 2005
Awards Third prize in Art Newspaper/AXA Prize for British Art Catalogues, 2004, for Eri c Ravilious.�
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Image Gallery
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Title: Aldeburgh Beach, 1988
Dimensions: 355mm x 560mm
Media: Watercolour on paper
Description: A 'river of life', as an appropriate symbol for a Baptistery window, carries the roundels that contain biblical and liturgical references.
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Title: Iken Church
Dimensions: 355mm x 560mm
Media: Watercolour on paper
Description: A 'river of life', as an appropriate symbol for a Baptistery window, carries the roundels that contain biblical and liturgical references.
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Title: Ramsgate
Dimensions: 220mm x 290mm
Media: Six colour lithograph
Description: First image in the set Seaside Lithographs published by The Spectator, Printed at the Church
studio from plates drawn by the artist.
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Title: The Fabulious Lost city of Christmas
Dimensions: 10cm high
Media: Line and wash (print)
Description:
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Title: Geogian House, 1997
Dimensions: -
Media: Line and wash
Description: