Born in Cambridge, England. When his mother, who was a talented painter, died he left England at seven years of age to go with his father to Argentina. He returned to go to boarding school. Upon the start of World War I he became an artilleryman.
He studied watercolours with T. I. Hallett for six years, tried farming and horse breeding and then came to Australia in 1923 where he was a jackaroo on a northern cattle station, before trying mining and then the civil service. He was married to Ellen Benedict.
He exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts about 1923. When World War II broke out he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. After the war he became the secretary of the Perth Club. He exhibited two oil paintings The Road by the Creek and River Reflections, North Fremantle in the Claude Hotchin Art Prize in 1949. He became a member of the Perth Society of Artists. In 1950 his exhibit was The Shadowed Peak. In 1952 he exhibited watercolours Peewees and Clouds and Shadows. He had fourteen exhibitions in Perth between 1946 and 1973.
Murray Mason wrote of his 1973 sellout exhibition, “His admirable handling and vision are certainly evident in this present exhibition. Whether in translating landscapes, birds, river scenes or horses he depicts with extreme accuracy and matching sensitivity. His ability to suggest sheen is splendid.”
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
