Biography
1937 |
Born July 9, Bradford, England | |
1959-62 | Studies at Royal College of Arts, London | |
1963 | First solo show, Kasmin Gallery. Travels to Egypt. First visit to Los Angeles | |
1964 | Moves to Los Angeles | |
1966 | Designs sets and costumes for Alfred Jarry's production of Ubu Roi at the Royal Court Theatre, London | |
1968 | Moves to London | |
1973-75 | Lives in Paris | |
1975 | Designs sets and costumes for The Rake's Progress | |
1977 | Designed the sets and costumes for Mozart's The Magic Flute, Glyndeboune Festival | |
1978 | Makes Los Angeles his permanent residence | |
1980-81 | Design sets and costumes for Parade, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, L'Enfant et les Sortileges | |
1982 | Exhibition of Photographs, Pompidou Center, Paris | |
1982-84 | Makes composite polaroids and photographic collages | |
1986 | Makes home made prints on office copy machines in his Los Angeles Studio | |
1988-89 | Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum, New York; Tate Gallery, London. Returns to painting, concentrating on seascapes, potted flowers and portraits of his family and friends | |
1989-90 | Makes multi-page fax pictures (up to 144 pages). Awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Painting, the Japan Art Association, Tokyo | |
1990 | Begins a series of oil paintings of the Santa Monica Mountains | |
1993 | Retrospective, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona | |
1995 | Begins portrait paintings of his dogs, Stanley and Boodgie | |
1998 | Continues large landscape paintings. Paints A Bigger Grand Canyon, oil on 60 canvases | |
1999 | Portrait drawings using a camera lucida. Begins research concerning the use of mechanical devises by Ingres and other artists |