His main interest was evolutionary ecology and his children's book The Story of Life published in 1983, is in the collections of more than 100 libraries in 2016.
[5] His main research area was in the ecological genetics of gastropod molluscs, on which he published over 20 papers in the international scientific literature.
A lifelong familiarity with a particular North Welsh dune system is a constant preoccupation in all his work, both abstract and figurative.
He was the co-founder of Harlech Biennale 1994 and between 1994 and 2006 he has curated and co-curated more than 40 exhibitions in a number of venues in the UK, and organized art sales.
[11] He was artist adviser to Space from 1996 to 2004 and was co-founder member, company secretary and trustee of The Art in Perpetuity Trust from 1995 to 2015.