[5] From there he attended, albeit briefly, St Martin's School of Art, before falling into a number of menial jobs within London's Soho.
He also frequently wrote short articles under pseudonyms, including Joe Hodges and Deirdre Pugh, for the Independent.
[3] Writing for The Independent, the columnist Adrian Searle commented: "[Bernard] had a shrewd, passionate eye, and was possessed of one of the most acute bullshit detectors I have ever encountered.
The photographer John Riddy opined that "Bernard's portraits of British artists are the only one's [sic] to escape cliché.
"[3] In 1999 he put the finishing touches to the Bruce Bernard Photography Collection for the James Moores Foundation.