EDUCATION

2006-07 Prince’s Drawing Schoo , London E1, Post Graduate Drawing Year
1989-93 Slade School of Fine Art, London, WC1, BA (Hons) Fine Art
1988-89 Chelsea School of Art, London, SW7, Foundation Course

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2006-07 Given Bursary to attend the Postgraduate Drawing Year at the Princes Drawing School
2001 Runner up - Laing Landscape and Seascape Award
1998 Artist in Residence, Slade Summer School
1997 Second Prize - Gilchrist Fischer Memorial Award
1995 Boise Scholarship to travel and make work in America
1994 Stoves Award Winner
1994 Finalist - Gilchrist Fischer Memorial Award
1993 Henry Tonks Medal for Painting
1992 Slade Project Award to make paintings in North Wales
1991 Second Prize Slade Summer Competition
1990 William Coldstream Prize: Slade School of Fine Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Solo Show Gillions Art, Battersea, London
2006 Solo Show, Slade Summer School, University College London
1999 Fox Williams, Solicitors, London
1998 Solo Show, Slade Gallery, University College London
1994 Solo Show, Slade Summer School, University College London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2008 Mauger Gallery, Bath
2006-08 London Group
2007 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Gallery, London
2006 ‘Altitude’ John Martin at Ashursts, London
2006 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, Cork Street
2005 Hunting Prize Exhibition, Royal College of Art
2004 ‘Subjective’ Sarah Myerscough Fine Art
2004 C.A.S Artfutures, City of London School
2003 ‘Recent Acquisitions Show’, Unilever Building, London
2002 ‘Five New Artists’, Purdy Hicks Gallery, Bankside, London
2001 ‘Urban Rhythms’, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2001 Laing Landscape and Seascape Award, Mall Galleries, London
1998 Group Show as part of the Gilchrist Fischer Memorial Award, Cadogan Contemporary

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006 Elected to the London Group
2005 Commissioned to make a number of drawings for Ian Rowland’s book on Drawing
2004 Commission for the offices of Topland Group
2003 Commission to make a painting of Stoke Court for Bayer plc
2002 Commission for the Canary Wharf Group
2000 Commission to make portrait of up coming actor Tom Hardy
1992 Commissioned to make drawings for Ron Bowens Book ‘Drawing Masterclass’

BIBLIOGRAPHY

February 05 Drawing the City, article for Ian Rowlands.
April 04 Review in the Saturday Independent
05/04/01 ‘Sense of Place’, Artist and Illustrator
20/01/98 Review by Andrew Taylor, The Independent
19/01/98 Review by John McEwen, The Sunday Telegraph
July 1994 Drawings reproduced in Artist and Illustrator
Jan 1994 Painting reproduced in Homes and Gardens
10/1/94 Review by John McEwen, The Sunday Telegraph
15/01/94 Review by William Packer, The Financial Times
10/12/93 Review by David Hammond, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
1989 Drawings used in Mute Magazine

COLLECTIONS

Works in the public collection of
University College London

Works in the collections of
Bayer plc,
Canary Wharf Group plc
GMO Woolley
Peat Marwick Accountants
Prentis, Donegan and Partners
Steven Drake Solicitors
Stoves, Liverpool
Topland Group
Unilever plc
Work also in private collections in Britain, America, France, Australia, and Hong Kong.

BIO

The artist states that these paintings are part of a larger body of work that explores the experience of travelling across America on a Grey Hound Bus searching out the ultimate urban and natural landscape. Although his paintings have an English sensibility he feels a particular sympathy with the Bay Area Figurative Painters whose work applied painterly abstraction to figurative subject matter.

The title of the project refers to the long running British Radio 4 program ‘Letter from America ’ where the presenter Alistair Cooke, an English journalist living in New York recorded his reflections on American daily life. Preece sees his own paintings and prints like postcards that could be sent back to the UK that might say something about his experience in the USA from an English perspective.

Born in 1970. Studied at Chelsea School of Art 1988–89 and the Slade School of Fine Art 1989-93. Given a Boise Scholarship to travel and make work in the USA in 1995 – 96. Work has been included in exhibitions with Angela Flowers ‘Small is Beautiful’ in 2006 and 2008. John Martin ‘Altitude’ at Ashurst in 2006, Sarah Myerscough, ‘Subjective’ in 2005 and Five New Artists at Purdy Hicks in 2002. He recently had a one-man show at Gillions Art in London .

Commissions have been undertaken for amongst others, the Canary Wharf Group, Bayer plc and the Topland Group. His work is in both private and public collections including University College London, Bayer plc, Unilever plc and the Canary Wharf Group.