 He followed this by showing his "Partonhall and Harbour" at the Central Exchange Art Gallery, Newcastle, in 1878 and was subsequently an exhibitor at the Arts Association Exhibition in Newcastle in 1879, 1881 and 1882 and the Gateshead Fine Art & Industrial Exhibition in 1883.In the following year he began an association with the exhibitions of the Newcastle Bewick Club which lasted just over a decade.In 1886, he sent his first of three works to the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, showing "The Deserted Mill".