Spring News

I am delighted to learn that this years Hilliard Society's annual exhibition of miniature paintings will go ahead this year in June.

The above painting is one of my contribution to this years event and you can visit the show for free.

Full details are on the society's website

Hilliard Society

Some of my miniature paintings have been licensed to Pattern Weights. These are small but highly decorative metal weights used by dressmakers to hold pattern pieces instead of pins. You may have noticed such weights being used on the popular TV series The Sewing Bee.

You can see designs here My Pattern Weights

The Hilliard Society, Wells.

Miniature watercolour painting of a Little Owl by Valerie Greeley R.M.S., H.S.

Four of my miniature paintings were accepted into this years annual Hilliard Society Exhibition in Wells. This was my third year to exhibit with the Society and was delighted to have been elected as a full member. I can now add the initials HS to my name. 

This year marks the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Nicholas Hilliard, an occasion which has been marked with several important exhibitions, including one at The National Portrait Gallery in London earlier this year. Hilliard came from Wells, Somerset and became famous for his portraits of Queen Elizabeth 1st and other notable figures. 

The Nicholas Hilliard Award 2018

This year I will be exhibiting two of my miniature paintings in The Hilliard Society Of Miniaturists Annual Exhibition at The Town Hall in Wells, Somerset.

The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday 2nd June to Saturday 9th June, closed Sunday 3rd June.

I am delighted to learn that my painting "Mouldywarp" has won the The Nicholas Hilliard Award 2018.