[2] He studied at St Martin's School of Art[2] in the 1920s and served in the British Army in WW2.
He also worked with Marjorie Jenkins at and around Goosberry Cottage, Lindsey Tye, near Hadleigh Suffolk.
[2] He spent most of his life in Hampstead and North London, working from a studio in Muswell Hill for 25 years.
He suffered from emphysema as a result of heavy smoking, when he worked his way from a cigarette through a cigar to a pipe.
He exhibited Winter Landscape at the Royal Academy in 1954 (Gallery #4);[4] Landscape from a Window in 1955 (Gallery #1 alongside Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Alfred Munnings, Sir Gerald Kelly, Sr William Russell Flint, James Fitton, Stanley Spencer and Henry Lamb).