June - Sept 2010 "Mi Pod" at Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight

February 2010   "Quicksilver" is completed. See him in the gallery page. My first foray into the world of Jesmonite (a sort of plaster and resin mix that can go outside). It won't be my last I am gald to say. I have now started work on a female torso before starting my angel series...watch this space in April.

November 23rd - 28th "Mi Pod" at Making Merry, Fishers Pond nr Winchester

September - November "Mi Pod" at 1000 Lakeside, North Harbour Portsmouth. www.lakesidenorthharbour.com

 

August 27th - 30th 2009 Exhibition of Marwell International Wildlife Art Society at Marwell Zoo, Winchester, Hampshire. MIWAS exhibition is the largest exhibition of wildlife art in europe. Entry is included in the price of the admission ticket. Previews Thurs 27th & Fri 28th. Please contact me if you ould like a ticket.

 

 

August 17th - 31st 2009 Hampshire Artists

Mi Pod, a pod of 6 dolphins, will swim about the beautiful garden of Hilary Archer, an inspired stone carver and artist at "Eastern", Fisherpond, (near Marwell Zoo) Winchester

 

August 1st - 14th 2009 Portsmouth and Hampshire Art Society

Portsmouth Cathedral, Old Portsmouth. 9am - 6pm

 

May 2009

16th -17th May = Havant Arts Trail at St Faiths Church, West Street, Havant. I received 200 visitors who were the first to see "Mi Pod". It was nice to meet so many lovely people and to see their smiles as the dolphins apparently swam around the trancept.

December 08

 See "Running Free" at the Portsmouth Open, Portsmouth City Museum until January 7th 2009.  Further editions are also available from the shop.

"Heat" and Elvis" now in the shop from just £95

I am currently working on a series Klimt style works - watch this space. Also to follow Heat 2 and 3, a completion of the triptych.

 

September 2008

 

I finally finished my owl aka "Nightwatch" (it has been 20 years in the making). Prints are now available to purchase via my shop page .

We had 12,000 visitors over the two weeks of  "Now and Then" at Portsmouth Dockyard. I hope that if you were one of them you had a good time and now believe that traditional skills have a valid place in contemporary art. 

August 16th - 31st 2008

See my latest pieces - Motherhood, Fall, Running Free and the Dragonfly Table at "Now and Then" an exhibtion of traditional skills with a contemporary twist. The Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth

May 2008

16th May to 6th June  Heat on sale at  impure Art  Ship Street, Brighton , 

 April 2008

Mike Read launches his "Choc Art" & falls in love with the dragon at the JAG gallery, Brighton.