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Born 1920, Maymyo, Burma, 1939-40 Slade School of Fine Art, 1945-47
Slade School of Fine Art, Died 1992 in France. Painter of abstracts and
semi-abstracts in oils and acrylic; collagist and constructivist. As a
prisoner of war he met and taught Terry Frost and in 1949 and 1951
visited St Ives where he met Ben Nicholson. In the early 1950s he was
associated Pasmore. He exhibited fist at the Musee Carcassonne, 1948,
and from 1953 showed at the Redfern Galley, London, as well as at other
London galleries, in the provinces and aboard. his work has been shown
in many group exhibitions and is in national and international public
collections including the Tate Gallery and the Hircshon Gallery,
Washington. He taught at Bath Academy of Art form 1955 to 1976, and at
the University of Reading from 1980-5. In 1969 he was Artist in
residence, University of Sussex, and Senior Fellow, Glamorgan Institute
of Higher Education, 1977-80. |