Chyenhal Painting No 20 64cm.hx80cm	Chyenhal Painting No 27 80cm.hx83cm	Chyenhal Painting No 30 48cm.hx60cm

Bernard’s paintings and ceramics celebrate the joy of seeing. Freely composed, they share through line and colour his pleasure in looking.
One and a half acres of garden surround the studios and are a backdrop to the daily cycle of work and a constant source of inspiration.

Selected solo exhibitions
2005 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surry
2004 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2002 Dundee Contemporary Art
2001 City of Aberdeen Art Gallery
Selected group exhibitions
2005 Belgrave Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
2005 The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, City Art Gallery, Leeds
2005 Thompsons -The City Gallery, London
2005 Newlyn Gallery, Lower gallery with Rachel Kantaris and Louise McClary, Cornwall
2004 ‘Critics Choice’ – selected by John Russel Taylor, Art Critic for The Times. Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
2003 ‘Critics Choice’ – Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall. (Selected by Joan Bakewell, broadcaster & writer.) Training
’75-‘79 Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, BAHons.(!st)
1981 Post Graduate at The Jan Van Eyk Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Commissions
1997 Weston College Mosaic. Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. 80sq.m. Ceramic pavement, main entrance.
Awards
1989 South West Arts Award
1992 Crafts Council Award
1995 South west Arts Training Bursary
Residencies
Demonstrator and exhibitor at the September 2004 Thomastown Pottery Skills Seminar, Kilkenny, Ireland. Organised by the Craft Potters Society of Ireland.
Collections
University of Warwick
City of Aberdeen
Publications
Crafts Council – Buyers Guide to contemporary British Studio Ceramics
The Extruder Book – Daryl E Baird – The American Ceramic Society