1944

 

Born Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England

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1961-64

 

Harrow School of Art

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1964-67

 

Royal College of Art

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1965

 

Sold drawings of Tangier to Queen magazine

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1967

 

Group exhibition in New York. Group exhibition at Time - Life London

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1970 

 

Group show in Tokyo

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1971

 

Travels in Greece and Turkey

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1972

 

A series of covers for Architectural Design Magazine

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1973

 

Solo exhibition at Motif Gallery London

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1974

 

London and Los Angeles

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1975

 

Group show in Paris

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1976

 

Drawings for the Sunday Times including a portrait of David Hockney

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1977

 

Solo exhibition, 'Beautiful Beasts' at the Thumb Gallery London

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Train Bleu to the South of France' drawings for the Radio Times

 

Drawings and prints in the V&A collection

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1978

 

Solo Exhibition at Francis Kyle Gallery

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Portrait of Peter Sellers in Vienna, of Lord Boothby for the Guardian and Elizabeth Smart for Harpers

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1979

 

Travels in India, Egypt, Haiti, New York

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Portrait of Mary Quant for the cover of Time Out

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1980

 

Travels in Morocco 

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Poster for BBC Proms London

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Portraits of Kenneth MacMillan and Zandra Rhodes

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1981

 

Portrait of Lady Diana for a Time Magazine Cover [Unused]

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Drawings for Ian Mcewan for The South Bank Show on television.

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Portrait of Sir Peter Pears

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1982

 

The Costume Party' solo exhibition of pastels at the Francis Kyle Gallery, London

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'Theatre Stamps' drawn for the British Post Office, won the top prizes in an international competition in Italy, including 'The Most Beautiful stamp in the World'

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A Drawing of Pope John Paul II, used as a sleeve for a record of his sermons in the U.K., now in the Vatican

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1983

 

Contributed by invitation to an exhibition of 'British Contemporary Painting' at the Museo Municipale Madrid

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'The Male Nude' a group exhibition London

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Exhibited at the Greene Street Gallery New York

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Portrait of Germaine Greer

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1984

 

'Paintings' solo exhibition at Francis Kyle Gallery London

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Print retrospective at Seen Gallery London

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'Drawings' Exhibition at Masavi Art Centre New York

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1985

 

Solo exhibition 'In Arcadia' at the Francis Kyle Gallery

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Drew 'Christmas Pantomime' stamps for the British Post Office

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Awarded the Phillips Gold Medal for stamp design

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1986

 

Portrait of William Golding, Nobel prize winning author, bought by The National Portrait Gallery

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Invited exhibitor at the Royal Academy

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Travels in the USA

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Portrait of Kingsley Amis

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1987

 

Living in Paris

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Designed sets and costumes for Madame Butterfly at the Monte Carlo Opera [Unfinished]

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1988

 

Paintings for 'Circus' Exhibition at the Theatre Museum London

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Prints Shown at The Royal College of Art

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Solo Exhibition 'Nuits Blanche' at Francis Kyle Gallery

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1989

 

Travels in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands

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Gave a lecture at F.I.T. In New York

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1990

 

Solo Exhibition 'The South Seas' at the Francis Kyle Gallery

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1991

 

Paintings 'Mozart's Travels' shown at the Lincoln Center New York

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1992

 

Travels in the Caribbean

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'Martinique' Solo exhibition Francis Kyle Gallery London

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1993

 

Portrait of Francis Partridge for a 'Bloomsbury' exhibition

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Writing and drawing travel stories in Japan and Tangier for the Sunday Times and Key West for the Daily Telegraph

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Portraits of Paul Bowles, the Hon. David Herbert, Edmund White and James Lord

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1994

 

'Paris in August' solo exhibition at the Francis Kyle Gallery

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'Paris in August' an illustrated diary published by Peter Owen

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Travel stories with drawings from Egypt, Rajasthan and Majorca for the Sunday Times

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Portraits of The Maharajah of Jodhpur and Paul Roche

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1995

 

Travel stories with drawings from the Venice Carnival, St Petersburg and Sri Lanka for the Sunday Times

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Portrait of Sir Arthur C Clarke now in the National Portrait Gallery

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1996

 

Watercolours and drawings, solo show at Francis Kyle Gallery

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1997

 

London, Paris and New York

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1998

 

Solo exhibition 'Night Paintings' at Francis Kyle Gallery

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1999

 

Living in Paris, portrait of Francoise Gilot

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2000

 

'Art of Memory' Exhibition at Francis Kyle Gallery

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Portrait of Simon Callow

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2001

 

Illustrated 'Summer in the Country' by Poulet Malassis for the Erotic Book Society

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2002

 

Living in Paris visited St Petersburg

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2003

 

Illustrated a Charlotte Bronte unpublished novel in a supplement for the Times

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2004

 

Paris, drawing of the Gangster's Wife

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2005

 

'Carnival of Desire' a solo exhibition at the Chris Beetles Gallery London

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2006

 

'Floral Room' paintings. Portrait of Peter Ackroyd

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2007

 

New York, Paris, London. Drawings sold at Christies

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2008

 

Paris

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2009

 

'My Blue Heaven' an exhibition of drawings in Paris

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2010

 

Paintings for 'The Art Of Travel'

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2011

 

In memoriam drawings at the Chelsea Arts Club

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2012

 

Drawing for 'Save the Children'

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2013

 

'South of France' Paintings

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2014

 

'Kensington Gardens' Drawings

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2015

 

Drawing for Thea Porter at the Fashion Museum London

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2016

 

Glasgow University received a bequest of drawings, made in the 1970s, for the Glasgow Citizens Theatre

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Drawing of David Bowie sold at Christies

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2017

 

'New York Days' Paintings

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2020

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Kensington Gardens Paintings

 

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2021

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The Who Sell Out re-issue with poster and t-shirts of Adrian's artwork

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Died in Kensington, London

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