In November 2010 I will be showing new work in a one man show at Waterhouse and Dodd, 26 Cork Street, London. Expected to run from the last week in November 2010 until Christmas, it will be the first opportunity to see paintings that have been created in my Dorset studio over the last couple of years. Images will be posted on this site in due course when the exhibition details have been finalized, or will be available from Waterhouse and Dodd.
The Scheringa Museum have acquired Portrait with Grave Goods and Model Steam Engine( Self Portrait ) for their permanent collection. These will join Grl rsting on swvl chr which they had previously purchased from Michael’s exhibition at Waterhouse and Dodd in 2006.
Following the collapse of the DSB Bank owned by Dirk Scheringa, it's main creditor, ABN Amro, has seized the entire collection which had been used to raise money for the construction of the now nearly completed new 38 million euro museum building."....they came like theives in the night" said tearful museum staff. We watch this space with interest.
2007 was spent catching up with portrait commissions. However, I am now settled back into the studio for a couple of years to work on more paintings, letting one picture lead naturally on to another. I look forward to exhibiting these paintings in due course.
Also, my thanks to Phil Rees for taking such pains and care to create, and maintain the new website.
Michael's portrait of Paul Beckett, amateur heavyweight boxer, committed Manx lawyer, qualified masseur and tattooed man with an appetite for human rights issues was exhibited at the years Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries 24th April-11th May 2008.
In 2006 Michael was commissioned by the UK Houses of Parliament to paint the then Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, for the House of Lords collection. The reform of the role in 2006 has meant that in effect the painting marks the last in a line of such portraits stretching back to the Norman Conquest. The portrait was unveiled at the house of Lords on July 9th 2007.
Michael's portrait of PD James is on loan to an exhibition of British paintings and drawings of English , middle class, urban domestic spaces 1914-2006 at the Geffrye Museum.
One man show at Waterhouse and Dodd, 26 Cork Street London, 22nd November-22nd December, 2006.
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