Born Sydney, 1918   1939-40 Studied part-time drawing classes Newcastle Tech 1941-46 Army service 1943-46 Lieut. 1st Aust. Para. BN 1946 Studied CRTS classes, East Sydney Technical College 1986 President Royal Art Society NSW 1972-84 President Australian Watercolour Institute 1975 Hon. member American Watercolour Society Fine Arts Committee TAFE, several years Committee of Medowbank Technical College - 3 years 1983 L’Ordre des Citoyens d’Honneur de Rocamadour, France 1987-88 Chairman, judging panel Doug Moran National Portrait Prize   Teacher of painting, drawing, design classes at National Art School NSW (later NSW School of Art and Design), at East Sydney, Randwick, Wollongong, Meadowbank. Teacher at Royal Art Society NSW Summer and Autumn schools and seminars at Bathurst, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Bundaberg. Taught classes on liner Orsova to England and return 1986. Made study visits to museums of New York, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Zurich, Munich, Cologne, Bueons Aires. Visited France on numerous occasions as leader of painting groups; painting, introducing groups to major museums of Paris, and many important provincial museums of French painting
	E x h i b i t i o n s Many solo and group shows. Exhibited in Australia-USA reciprocal exhibitions: 1974 Australian watercolour paintings of Australian Watercolour Institute to New York, followed by American watercolours to Sydney exhibition. Exhibited in Australian Watercolour Institute touring exhibition to eight NZ galleries and with American Watercolour Society (Hon. Member) exhibited in New York 1976 and 1989 (122nd Annual).   C o l l e c t i o n s Art Gallery NSW, Sydney; Regional Galleries: (in NSW) Newcastle, Wollongong, Albury, Murwillumbah, Goulburn, Maitland; (in QLD) Rockhampton, Stanthorpe, Bundaberg; (in VIC) Bendigo, Hamilton City, Waverley. Municipal Galleries in Mosman, Grafton, Rockdale, Camberwell, Trinity Grammar School (Sydney), Wollongong University, DDIAE Toowoomba, SH Ervin National Trust Gallery, Sutherland Shire Council, Ryde Shire Council, Camden Shire Council.
	S e l e c t e d   A w a r d s 1965 - NSW Art Gallery Trustees Watercolour Prize 1970 - Wynne Prize for landscape 1973 - Spirit of a Nation Invitation, Rockhampton 1977 - Hamilton City and Lufthansa to Europe   Numerous others including: Portrait, Landscape, Seascape, Figurative at Royal Easter Show Sydney Sir Will Ashton Memorial Medal 1988.     C o l l e c t i o n s Australian National Gallery, Canberra and all Australian State and many provincial galleries; many major international Galleries and university collections and in private collections both in Australia and overseas.   P u b l i c a t i o n s Australian Watercolour Painters 1780-1980. Jean Campbell. (Rigby 1983) Australian Landscape in Oils and Watercolours. Australian Artists Editions - Brackenreg 1984 Australian ARTIST Magazine. Vol. 1 No. 8 Feb. 1985 Encyclopedia of Australian Art. Alan McCulloch. 1968 & 1977. Australian Impressionist and Realist Artists. compiled Tom Roberts, ed. Geoff Gaylard. Graphic Management Services Melbourne. 1990. Places in Watercolour. Betty Lou Schlemm. Rockport Publishers. US 1996.
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