[3] He was born in Panteg, Monmouthshire, read Natural Sciences at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and qualified as a doctor from UCL Medical School.
He worked with Richard Demarco to develop an artistic event at the centre of the European Conference on Clinical Oncology (ECCO) at the South Bank in London in 1989.
[17] The Cantata “Bavarian Gentians” commissioned for the occasion from Hugh Wood received its first performance conducted by Richard Hickox at this event.
The two aspects of his career came together when thirty five small drawings made in the clinical notes of his patients were shown in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2004 under the title “Treatments”.
[18] A vivid account of the mutual influence of art and oncology in his work can be found in an essay published in the Lancet in 2017 "One Life".