1933
Born and grew up in Worcester. Father involved in farming and horse training and worked for the Ministry of Agriculture. Mother’s family were market gardeners. No art education at school but made ‘desperate attempts’ at what he thought was ‘Modern Art’, influenced by analytical cubist works by Picasso and Gris in art encyclopedias.

1950-1952
Influenced by his father’s involvement in agriculture, attended the Shropshire Institute of Agriculture where studied for a National Diploma in Agricultural Engineering. The Agricultural College shared a building with Worcester School of Art. Read the ‘Meaning of Art’ by Sir Herbert Read, introducing the concept of form, space, movement and line.

1952-1954
National service, coinciding with Korean War. Saw active service as a tank engineer. Travelled in North and South Korea and Japan.

1954-1957
Worked and studied part time for A-levels and NDD courses. Casual attendance at Worcester College of Art where met ceramicist Geoffrey Whiting and assisted with kiln.

1957-1960
Attended Bath Academy of Art and embraced unconventional teaching. Quickly established a strong disposition towards abstraction. Taught by Adrian Heath, Martin Froy, Anthony Fry, Howard Hodgkin, Malcolm Hughes, Philip Sutton, Gillian Ayres, William Scott, Jack Smith, John Ernest and Robyn Denny. In last year was commissioned to make a 15 by 9 foot abstract mosaic for a college in Wiltshire. The first signs of grids and blocks of colour within a grid construction began to appear in his work at this time.

1960-1961
Won Italian Government Scholarship in Art to study mosaic in Ravenna. Visited the commercial mosaic studios and photographed the building site hoardings which inspired the Pop Art poster collages of the following year.

1961-1962
Married fellow Bath student Eve Laurens. Worked part-time painting Lambs Navy Rum figures in a studio with Mark Vaux and Quentin Crisp. Part-time teaching. Made Pop Poster collages as a "homage to Pop Art"

1962
Started work at Croydon College of Art, where was to teach for the next 8 years. Colleagues included John Hoyland, Allen Jones, Bridget Riley, Bruce McLean, David Leverett, Barry Fantoni and Michael Simpson.

1964-1966
Started working on the Op Art paintings, exhibiting with Bridget Riley, Michael Kidner, Jeffrey Steele, Fred Carver and Peter Sedgley at McRoberts & Tunnard Gallery.

1966
Commonwealth Scholar in Art and Architecture. Travelled extensively in India.

1967
Introduced moiré/interferometry to work, experimenting with line and colour, optical effects and relationship between art and science. Mediums include resist line drawing and wash over with fast acid dyes. Also worked on Op Art prints. First solo exhibition, University of Sussex.

1968
Started work on the two-colour stripe acrylic paintings, still using moiré and painting on a very large scale. Influenced by American painters such as Noland, Stella, and Newman. The two-colour stripe paintings installed at Match Shed, London.

1971
Solo show with Angela Flowers Gallery, London. Invited by Malcolm Hughes to join Matrix, a group of artists including Michael Kidner, Jeffrey Steele, John Ernest and Jean Spencer. Matrix exhibition opened at the Arnolfini Gallery in 1971 and led to Systems exhibition curated by Nicolas Serota at the Whitechapel Art Gallery the following year.

1972
Returned to drawing, making large scale charcoal works on canvas, washed and fixed with cellulose acetate. Work based on the grid and cross, often using the resist line of earlier optical work

1974
Included in the British Painting exhibition at the Hayward gallery.

1975
Stimulated by Fundamental Painting/Fundamentele Schilderkunst exhibition mounted at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and later included in the Fundamental Painting exhibition at the Air Gallery, London, curated by Rini Dipel of the Stedeliilk Museum. Solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

1975-1991
In 1977 moved to Jersey in Channel Islands. Continued working on charcoal drawings on canvas and paper, exhibiting mainly in Holland, Belgium, Italy, France, Japan and USA.

1991-1999
Returned to England. After nearly two decades of painting without colour started the ‘white paintings’, his last series of work. Exhibited at the RHOK Gallery, Brussels in 1996. Retrospective exhibition of his work at University of Wales School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth and at Flowers East in 1999. In 1997 Eve diagnosed with cancer and died within several months. Soon after, he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. Determined to continue working, explored specially adapted computer software but unable to make any progress due to rapid onset of disease. Died in February 1999.