Figure on a Bed, a thickly painted study of an interior space, influenced by his favourite artist, the French Post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard, was bought by the Art Gallery of Ontario.
[2] For that reason, he has been called one of the Isaacs Group of artists which includes Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Gordon Rayner and John Meredith, among others.
[1] He also was a founding member of the Artists' Jazz Band, along with Nobuo Kubota, Robert Markle, Dennis Burton and Richard Gorman, formed in 1962.
[5] His national reputation was made with semi-abstract paintings that showed one or two figures floating in space, but, as he said, colour came first, along with heavy impasto.
In 1960, with Edmund Alleyn, Jean-Paul Lemieux, Frances Loring, and Albert Dumouchel, he represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.