Unlike his fellow '54 Venice Biennale collaborators; Lucian Freud, Henry Moore and Francis Bacon his works did not start to fully realise similar, commercial acknowledgement until circa 2000.
Trained as a Royal Marines signaller, he was sent to Crete as part of MNBDO I (Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation), the primary British contingent of the island's defending forces, and took part in the Battle of Crete, seeing vicious close-quarter fighting during the initial landing of German paratroopers.
Braund went on to participate in further operations in North Africa, Ceylon with the MNBDO, later taking a commission and transferring to the UK as a Royal Navy schoolmaster, delivering Educational and Vocational Training to demobilising troops at centres at Scapa Flow and in London.
He taught at Bideford Grammar School before World War II and demobilised to Hornsey College of Art ( to teach design and printmaking until 1976.
This was a big, open (aside from the self-constructed, lean-to dark room) multi-media space again, ahead of its time.
They encapsulated a less formalised response to the West Country landscape and tended to focus on fixing a moment of the changing sky.