[5] He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London,[4] and, amongst others, via the British Council[6] at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Canada; the National Gallery of New Zealand and in the British Pavilion of the 1939 World's fair in New York.
[7] At 10 years old, Drury lost the sight in one eye, due to an air-gun pellet, whilst playing with his brother.
[3] He married the painter Enid Solomon in 1937; two years later at the outbreak of war, Drury could not serve due to his damaged sight.
The Daily Telegraph obituary praised him as ‘One of the most distinguished etchers and draughtsmen in that remarkably gifted generation of printmakers who grew up between the two World Wars.
[His landscapes] contain a deep poetic quality which was to exert a powerful influence on the succeeding generation of neo-Romantic artists.’ [8]