Surrealist painter in oil and watercolour. Born in Chelsea and worked in Paris.

1902 Born London

1921 Studied with Bernard Meninsky, Westminster School of Art evening classes.Meninsky painted his portrait in 1924

1922 Studied art in Paris.

1925 Took a studio in Fitzroy Street; contacts with the Bloomsbury painters

1927 Elected member of the London Group

1929 Guest exhibitor with the "Seven and Five" society

1930 In the South of France with Edward Sackville-West. Studio in Paris; met Duchamp, Breton, Giacometti and Crevel.Designs for ballet Pomona for Camargo Society.

1931 Exhibition at the Wertheim Gallery

1932 Begins designing book jackets for the Hogarth Press. In May visits New York with Nancy Cunard

1936 Exhibits in the International Surrealist Exhibition, London; and in Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, New York. Designs for ballet Prometheus, Sadler's Wells

1934 Contributes article on dancing in Harlem to Nancy Cunard's Negro anthology

1937 Late in the year visits Spain during the Civil War, with Nancy Cunard; meets Hemingway in Madrid

1939 Art director on documentaries for Strand Films

1941 Art editor of Our Time, left wing political and literary monthly, to which he contributes drawings and caricatures. During the war attends Surrealist meetings at the Barcelona Restaurant,Soho

1946 Publishes A Blue Book of Conversation (Nicholson and Watson), mainly drawn and written in the mid-1930's

1947 Living in Ireland

1950 Grant from Artists' Benevolent Fund

1967 Included in The Enchanted Domain: Surrealist Art, Exeter City Art Gallery

1971 Included in Britain's Contribution to Surrealism, Hamet Gallery, London

1972 Dies in Hastings where he had lived for several years.