b. 1933, in London. Studied at South West Essex School of Art (1949-50), St. Martin's School of Art (1950-51), and Slade School of Art (1951-1954). One-man exhibitions in Gimpel Fils, London (1958 and 1960); Molton Gallery, London (1962); Kasmin Gallery, London (1963 and 1964). From early 1960s, he produced paintings that were idiosyncratic and deliberately disparate in style. Soon began to render a dizzying effect with the aid of an airbrush. Consistently developed procedures which had their roots in the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock.