[1][2] He was best known for his 'wordscapes', "made by drawing letters, words, phrases and long passages directly on to paper, card or painted panels.
"[1] His preferred medium was pen and ink", using "whatever came to hand – envelopes, food labels or commercial documents".
The same year he married Astrid Belling and the pair moved to near Nailsworth in the Cotswolds, where he spent most of his life.
[1][2] Furnival, Sylvester Houédard and Edward Wright, founded Openings in 1964 to publish visual and concrete poetry.
[1] Furnival also collaborated on print, drawing and book projects with Ian Hamilton Finlay, Anselm Hollo, Thomas Meyer and Jonathan Williams,[1] and with his wife, a textile artist.