Michael Bishop has worked and exhibited in London and New York and his paintings
are in many private collections worldwide.
His work was used for the London Tube poster 'Downtown to Soho' in 1996,
magazine covers such 'Science' as well as being featured in 'Vogue', The Observer'
and 'The Times'.
During his stay in New York from 1990 until 1995, he illustrated a version of
Frances Hodsgon Burnett's 'The Secret Garden' for publishers Hugh Later Levin.
He paints mainly landscapes, urban landscapes and seascapes and lives in Worthing on the
South coast of England.
West Surrey College of Art & Design Foundation Course
Brighton Art College BA (Hons)
Exhibitions
1982-1995
‘Hide and Seek’ Francis Kyle Gallery, London.
‘Mogul Empire’ Francis Kyle Gallery, London.
The Gallery Lincoln Centre NYC/Francis Kyle.
The Lublin Gallery, Spring Street, NYC
The Ambassador Gallery, Spring Street NYC
Illustration House Spring Street NYC
Commissioned by London Transport to design London Transport Tube poster
‘Downtown to Soho’ for their series Art on the Underground 1996
1995 - Present
Thompsons Gallery, Dover Street London Summer Show 1997
Coombs Contemporary Art, Tower Bridge Piazza, London 2001-02
CCA Gallery Fulham Rd, London 2000
Society of Landscape Painters, Mall Galleries, London 2001
St David’s Hall, Cardiff 2002
Highgate Fine Art, Highgate, London 2003
Highgate Fine Art, Highgate, London 2004
Southdown Gallery, Leigh, Kent 2005
Visions and Landscape, Charterhouse School Gallery, 2005
Highgate Fine Art, Highgate, London 2005
Highgate Fine Art, Highgate, London 2006
Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London Summer Exhibition 2007
Francis Kyle Gallery, London, Contemporary Artists from the West
Winter in Russia 2008
St Annes Gallery, Lewes, Summer Exhibition 2017
Project Gallery, Arundel, Summer Exhibition 2017
Participation in Winter Auction for Hepatitus C charity ‘Art on a Postcard’ 2020
and the Ataxia charity auction 2021
Fairground, Glyndebourne Autumn 2022
Staged Nature, Glyndebourne Summer 2023
Fairground, Glyndebourne, 2025
Summer Exhibition, David Linley London 2023
Arundel Contemporary 2023
British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery/Amanda Aldous 2024.
London Art Fair, Amanda Aldous 2025
Hastings Contemporary 2025
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 2025
King & McGaw, print series 2026
Current Galleries
David Linley, Belgravia, London.
Glyndebourne Opera House, Sussex.
Silson Contemporary, Harrogate, Yorkshire.
Amanda Aldous Fine Art, Hampshire