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RECENT EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2024 The Royal institute of Painters in Watercolour annual exhibition
  • 2024 The John Ruskin Prize
  • 2024 The British Art Prize 2023 Oxo Tower exhibition London
  • 2023 People doing things. Duo show Ronapainting gallery 2023
  • 2023 Ruth Borchard Online Exhibition.
  • 2023 Oxford Art Society Open. St Johns College Oxford.
  • 2023 'For Women, By Women III' ronapainting gallery
  • 2023 Winter Exhibition, ronapainting gallery
  • 2023 Hari Art Prize. Hari Hotel Belgravia
  • 2022 Oxford Art Society Open
  • 2022 Open studios Oxford and Bucks.
  • 2022 Signature Arts Prize Exhibition. Bankside Hotel, London.
  • 2022 Holly Bush Painting Prize Exhibition. Lauderdale House. Highgate
  • 2022 ‘INHABIT: Spaces, Places and the Everyday’ Crypt Gallery London.
  • 2022 ‘For Women by Women II’ ronapainting gallery
  • 2022 Oxford Art Society Members Exhibition. Cloister Gallery Oxford.
  • 2022 ‘Life after Life’ Highgate Gallery
  • 2021 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour. Mall Galleries
  • 2021 Oxford Art Society Members Exhibition 
  • 2021 ‘For Women by Women' ronapainting gallery
  • 2020 Lockdown Exhibition. Ashmolean Museum
  • 2020 Grad show. Newington Gallery 
  • 2020 Oxford Arts Society Open
  • 2020 Online Exhibition: ' 100 Days of Solitude'
  • 2020 'Beyond the Likeness' Exhibition.  Newington Gallery, London
  • 2020 Oxford Art Society Members Exhibition (online) 
  • 2019 (RWA) Open Royal West of England 
  • 2019 Oxford Art Society Open  
  • 2019 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours. Mall Galleries
  • 2018 OAS Open exhibition 
  • 2017 Portrait Prize. RBSA gallery, Birmingham
  • 2017 Readers award winner Artists and Illustrator’s magazine. Mall Galleries

RECENT AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS:

  • 2024 The John Ruskin Prize
  • 2024 The British Art Prize
  • 2023 Ruth Borchard self-portrait prize
  • 2023 Pre-selected RSPP
  • 2023 Visual Artists Open longlisted
  • 2023 Winston Churchill.  Feathers Hotel Woodstock.
  • 2023 ‘Dot tea’ Permanent collection, Liberty Speciality market, Walkie Talkie Building, London
  • 2023 Hari Art Prize. Belgravia, London.
  • 2022 Jacksons Prize longlisted
  • 2022 Finalist Hollybush Prize. Lauderdale House, Highgate.
  • 2022 Finalist Signature arts prize. Bankside Hotel. London.
  • 2022 Winner Readers award Liberty Speciality Market Art prize
  • 2021 Sky Portrait Artist of the Year
  • 2021 Finalist Hollybush Painting Prize
  • 2021 Shortlisted Signature Arts Prize 
  • 2020 Longlisted Jacksons Art prize

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