EDUCATION
MA (RCA) The Royal College of Art, London
BA (Hons) First Class, Glasgow School of Art
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 - Space; Group Show, Liminal Gallery, Margate
2026 - Headlining - Winter, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2026 - Contemporary Istanbul, Pontone Gallery, Istanbul, Türkiye
2026 - Aotearoa Art Fair 2026, Pontone Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2026 - EXPO Chicago 2026, Pontone Gallery, Chicago, USA
2026 - Incandescence; Solo Show, Pontone Gallery, London
2025 - John Moores Painting Prize; The Walker Gallery, Liverpool
2025 - Site Seers; Group Show of Contemporary Landscape Painting. Saul Hay Fine Art; Manchester
2025 - Exile and Return; Celebrating 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Guernsey; St Pierre de Bois, Guernsey
2024 - All Shall Be Well; Solo Exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2024 - ING Discerning Eye; The Mall Galleries, London
2024 - Ethereal Echoes; Two man show with Andrew Tyzack at Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk
2023-24 New Light Touring Prize Exhibition
2023 - ING Discerning Eye; The Mall Galleries, London
2023 - Silent Disco '23 - Mixed Show; curated by Graham Crowley, Wickham Market, Suffolk
2023 - Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2023 - British Contemporary Art 2013-2023, A Decade of Change; Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk
2022 - Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize - Short List
2022 - Shore, Lines and Brush Marks; Two woman show - Candie Museum, Guernsey
2022 - Paint Edgy; Contemporary British Painting Show, Ropewalk, Barton
2020 - Deborah Grice Headlining at The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2020-21 New Light Touring Prize Exhibition
2019 - Lynn Painter Stainer's Prize Exhibition; The Mall Galleries, London
2018 - Between the Lines; Solo Exhibition, Saul Hay Fine Art, Manchester
2017 - ING Discerning Eye Prize Exhibition; The Mall Galleries, London;
AWARDS
2025 - John Moores Painting Prize Visitors' Choice Award - Walker Gallery, Liverpool
2024 - People's Choice Award - The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
2022 - People's Choice Award - New Light Exhibition, The Tullie Gallery, Carlisle
2017 - Award for Best Painting from the Midlands, The ING Discerning Eye Prize Exhibition
2017 - The Saul Hay Award for Emerging Artist; New Light Prize Exhibition.
National Pilot’s License CAA
First Prize Folio Society illustration Award The Folio Society
Painter Stainer’s Award for Illustration Royal College of Art
RTZ Travel Scholarship Royal College of Art
Design Bursary for Excellence Glasgow School of Art
Bequest for Excellence in Illustration Glasgow School of Art
STATEMENT
My painting isn’t about me; it is about us.
My work explores the relationship between memory, landscape and the future, using nostalgia not as sentimentality, but as a form of refuge. I am interested in how familiar images can evoke a sense of belonging while, through their transformation, becoming thresholds between what we know and what remains unknown.
Growing up in rural Yorkshire, I developed an enduring sensitivity to expansive landscapes, dramatic skies and the emotional power of place. My work draws on the visual language of nineteenth-century British Romantic landscape painting, particularly its ability to create atmosphere rather than simply describe a scene. I deliberately use familiar, almost nostalgic imagery to create a sense of recognition and ease.
That familiarity is then disrupted.
Geometric forms, lines, voids and luminous structures interrupt the landscape, introducing a sense of tension and uncertainty. These elements reflect the invisible systems that increasingly shape contemporary life: algorithms, automation and artificial intelligence. They suggest a world in which our experience of reality is becoming increasingly shaped by unseen forces.
At the centre of my practice is hope. I am interested in resilience, vulnerability and our continuing desire to find refuge in an increasingly uncertain world.
My use of phosphorescent pigment extends these ideas beyond the conventional surface of painting. Works such as Safehold, which received the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize Visitor’s Choice Award, transform in darkness. What appears vulnerable and muted in daylight becomes luminous at night, suggesting that hope may exist precisely where certainty disappears.
In a culture increasingly dominated by speed, screens and artificial intelligence, painting offers something different: time, attention and presence. I see the slowness of painting not as a weakness, but as a quiet form of resistance. To stop and look is to reclaim a moment of human attention.
Ultimately, my paintings ask how we navigate the space between what we remember, what we fear and what we hope for.
My painting isn’t about me; it is about us: Our past, and our future.
