On leaving art school, he set up a very successful design team, inviting Binder and Edwards from Bradford to join him to form BEV (the name derived from the first letters of their surnames).
On returning to Britain, after being commissioned by Paul McCartney to paint a piano in psychedelic colours, he asked the Beatle if he was interested in participating in The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave planned for 28 January 1967.
[4] He also accepted a commission to paint a giant psychedelic mural on the exterior three-storey-high wall of a building on Carnaby Street that housed the Lord John boutique.
He rejected the "London scene" and moved back to Manchester, where he became the country's most prolific mural artist, during the 1970s and early 1980s.
During the 1970s he employed a variety of young people to assist and learn how to produce a mural, and he also completed many private commissions, re-creating on a smaller scale some of the success he achieved in the 1960s.
In the mid-1980s he started to produce his "Victims" series of paintings, which depicted some of the horrors of modern society, and which were found to be quite controversial at the time.