(N.D.D.) in Painting, followed by a one-year postgraduate course at the School of Art, Reading University, under Professor Anthony Betts.

 

In 1960, he then obtained a French Government Art scholarship in Paris where he became close friends, in particular, with the South African novelist André Brink, and went on to illustrate one of Brink's books, "Potpourri" (Cape Town, 1962).

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Back in England, he drew for The Times and became involved in the mid-1960s - with the playwright Arnold Wesker and Nobel Prize winner novelist Doris Lessing, and others - in the Centre 42 project, an attempt to regenerate the arts in Britain.

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On getting married in 1965 and moving to Sweden, he found it impossible to make a living from his art and graduated first into journalism and translation and then into the world of food and fine wine. During this time he published two books on Stockholm and helped to change the Swedish public's attitudes to wine and gastronomy.

 

Back in England since 1995, he’s lately started painting again.

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