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1927
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Born Walthamstow, London 9th February
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1940 - 1946
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Studied Harrow School of Art
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1946 - 1948
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Sentenced to six months imprisonment at Wormwood Scrubs as conscientious objector, followed by 18 months farm work in Harrow
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1948 - 1951
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Post-graduate student at the Royal College of Art
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1950 - 1951
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Young Contemporaries exhibitions, RBA Galleries
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1953
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Designed set and costumes for ‘A Mirror of Witches', produced by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden
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1954
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Mural commission at Broad Lane Comprehensive School, Coventry
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1955
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Sets for Sadler’s Wells production of ‘Saudades’
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1955
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Moved to ‘Butts’ farmhouse, Horton-in- Ribblesdale, Yorkshire
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1956
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Birth of their son Jacob
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1958
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Birth of their son Benjamin
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1950 - 1959
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Teaching at St. Alban’s, Hammersmith and Maidstone art-schools
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1967
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Commissioned by Oxford University Press to illustrate part of Old Testament
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1967
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Elected Associate of Royal Academy of Art
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1969
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Bought croft (sheiling) on Outer Hebridean island of Scarp and spent next ten summers there
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1962 - 1970
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Head of Painting at Manchester College of Art
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1971
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Commissioned to paint murals for St. Anselm’s Church, Kennington, London
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1972
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Elected Royal Academician
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1975
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Commission to make 14 ceramic panels on the Stations of the Cross for Roman Catholic church in Milton Keynes
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1973 - 1976
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Visiting tutor Leeds University
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1981 - 1986
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Profssor of Painting at University of Newcastle-upon- Tyne
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1987
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Honorary Member of the Royal Watercolour Society
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1994
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Commission to paint the Fourteen Stations of the Cross for St Mary’s (RC) Church, Manchester (Shown prior to installation at the Royal Academy’s Diploma Galleries)
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1986 - 1995
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Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools (also elected to honorary title of Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools)
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1995
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Elected Professor of Painting Emeritus, Royal Academy
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2005
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Died 9th March. Survived by his wife Anna and sons Jacob and Benjamin
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2007 |
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108 Fine Art, Harrogate (solo) |
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2007 |
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108 Fine Art, Harrogate (solo) |
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2006 |
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108 Fine Art, Harrogate (solo) |
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2005 |
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Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University (solo) |
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2004 |
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Fine Art Society, London (solo) |
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2004 |
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Winsor & Newton Turner Prize for watercolour, R.A. Summer Exhibition |
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2003 |
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Drawing Prize R.A., Summer Exhibition |
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2003 |
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Central Art Gallery, Ashton-under-Lyne (solo) |
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2002 |
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75th Birthday show in Friends’ Room, Royal Academy of Arts (solo) |
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2001 |
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Beaux Arts Gallery, London (solo) |
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2000 - 2001 |
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North House Gallery, Manningtree (solo) |
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1998 |
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Beaux Arts Gallery, London (solo) |
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1997 |
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Beaux Arts Gallery, London (solo) |
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1996 |
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Beaux Arts Gallery, London (solo) |
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1995 |
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Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy, showing murals for St. Mary’s, Manchester |
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1995 |
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Christopher Hull Gallery, London (solo) |
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1994 |
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Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax, Yorkshire |
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1994 |
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Korn Ferry Prize, R.A. Summer Exhibition for The Dance of Love (purchased by Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon) |
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1993 |
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Christopher Hull Gallery, London (solo) |
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1991 |
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Gallery 10, London (solo) |
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1991 |
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Christopher Hull Gallery, London (solo) |
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1990 |
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Gallery 10, London (solo) |
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1989 |
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Gallery 10, London (solo) |
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1988 |
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‘Colour Chart of a Way’ retrospective, Diploma Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts Wakefield Art Gallery (solo) |
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1986 |
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Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle/Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle (solo) |
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1983 - 1985 |
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Gallery 10, London (solo) |
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1983 |
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Prophecy and Vision, Arnolfini , Bristol |
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1982 |
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Oxford Gallery, Oxford (solo) |
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1981 |
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A Decade of Painting – touring show organised by the Third Eye Art Centre Gallery and touring to Kendal, Newcastle |
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1980 |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery (solo) |
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1979 |
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Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry (solo) |
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1978 |
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Sunderland Arts Centre (solo) |
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1955 - 1978 |
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Regular shows at Roland, Browse Delbanco (later Browse & Darby) (solo) |
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1977 |
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1st Prize for Drawing, Cleveland International Drawing Biennale |
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1974 |
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British Painting ’74, Hayward Gallery, London |
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1974 |
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Turnpike Gallery, Leigh Wakefield Art Gallery, Rochdale Art Gallery, Gallery One, Settle (solo) |
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1973 |
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Whitechapel Gallery, London, Leeds University (solo) |
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1972 |
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Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal (solo) |
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1970 |
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Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (solo) |
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1969 |
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Major retrospective show, Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art (solo) |
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1968 |
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Touring exhibition, U.S. A. (solo) |
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1967 |
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Manchester College of Art (solo) |
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1965 |
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Cartwright Hall, Bradford Museums & Art Gallery (solo) |
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1963 |
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Cartwright Hall, Bradford Museums & Art Gallery (solo) |
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1959 |
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Cartwright Hall, Bradford Museums & Art Gallery (solo) |
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1956 |
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York City Art Gallery (solo) |
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1955 |
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British Council Congress of Cultural Liberty – Brussels, Paris, Rome |
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1955 |
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Carnegie Institute Biennale – Pittsburgh, USA |
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1954 - 1955 |
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British Council Touring Exhibition – Canada, USA, New Zealand, China |
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1952 - 1953 |
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Gimpel Fils, London (solo) |
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