ABSTRACT
Painter of nudes, landscapes, still-life and figures in oils. He trained at Camberwell School of Art 1948–51, winning a State Scholarship to the Slade School in 1951. In 1952 he was awarded a Spanish State Scholarship to work in Segovia and in 1953 the Prix De Rome, working in France, Holland and Belgium, as well as in Italy. In 1954 he continued at the Slade as a postgraduate and later travelled widely: to Morocco in 1963, Turkey in 1968, Italy in 1972–4 and 1976, India in 1984 and Cyprus in 1985. In 1987 he was invited to teach at the Hangzhou Fine Art Academy in China. He first exhibited with the LG in 1951 (becoming a member in 1960), and his first solo exhibition was in 1961 at the Beaux Arts Gallery. He has since exhibited at London galleries, most recently at Browse and Darby, and retrospective exhibitions have been held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1974 and 1989. His work has been represented in many group exhibitions and in public collections including the Tate Gallery. He has taught at the Slade School and Camberwell School of Art since 1961. His awards include the Edwin Austin Premier Scholarship in 1970, and first prize in Painting, John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, in 1972. His slowly achieved paintings are grounded in the Euston Road School tradition of observing and recording reality. He paints by a process of analysis and constant referral to the subject and its daily changes, using measuring marks as a checking system (e.g. Zagi, 1981–2). All his work shares an intensity of perception and more recent paintings reveal his interest in compositional geometry, the growing role of colour and careful attention given to the surface.
