Career
In 1980 he exhibited a small self-portrait in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The painting was bought by the art collector, Sir Brinsley Ford. In 1986 his portrait of The Liverpool Poets was purchased by the National Portrait Gallery.
His continuing involvement with the gallery and Robin Gibson then 20th Century Curator (later Chief Curator) led to a major one-man exhibition and tour in the Gallery in April 1990 "Contemporary Poets", which consisted of 17 large canvasses of 20 poets, alongside a poem from each poet, numerous studies, and a series of Saturday morning readings from Seamus Heaney, Douglas Dunn, Charles Causley, Wendy Cope, and Craig Raine.
He later painted Ryan Giggs for the National Library of Wales. In 1993 he exhibited in The Portrait Now show.
She had been the model of choice, in the inter-war years, for many leading artists, including Meredith Frampton. This award led to his commission to paint Kazuo Ishiguro, which was unveiled the following summer in the National Portrait Gallery by Ismail Merchant.
National Portrait Gallery, London.
6 works. The portraits are of: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, (triple portrait known as) The Liverpool Poets. Seamus Heaney, John Heath-Stubbs, Willy Russell, Sir Bobby Charlton, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York of the British Poet Peter Reading, and Armenian poet Vahé Oshagan.
National Museum Wales, painting of Tyrone O"Sullivan. Ulster Museum, Belfast, painting of Michael Longley. National Library of Wales, 6 works
Street Andrews University, portrait of Principal Struther Arnott
Birmingham University
Warwick University, painting of Sir Christopher Zeeman
Ferens Gallery, Hull
National Museums Liverpool portrait of Willy Russell
Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead
Moma Wales, Sir Kyffyn Williams, Ruth Lambert
Street Georges hospital, London
Sheffield University Portraits of Sir Peter Middleton and Sir Harry Kroto
Manchester University portraits of Sir Martin Harris and Alan Gilbert.
