Adrian George
1944 Born Cirencester Gloucester England
1961-64 Harrow School of Art
1964-67 Royal College of Art
1965 Sold drawings of Tangier to Queen magazine
1967 Group exhibition in New York. Group exhibition at Time - Life London
1970 Group show Tokyo. Contributor to a Beatles book
1971 Travels in Greece and Turkey
1972 A series of covers for Architectural Design Magazine
1973 Solo exhibition at Motif Gallery London
1974 London and Los Angeles
1975 Group show in Paris. Drew Charles James in the Chelsea Hotel NY
1976 Drawings for the Sunday Times including a portrait of David Hockney
1977 Solo exhibition, 'Beautiful Beasts' at the Thumb Gallery London .
' Train Bleu to the South of France' drawings for the Radio Times
Drawings and prints in the V&A collection
1978 Solo Exhibition at Francis Kyle Gallery
Portrait of Peter Sellers in Vienna, of Lord Boothby for the Guardian and Elizabeth
Smart for Harpers
1979 Travels in India, Egypt, Haiti, New York
Portrait of Mary Quant for the cover of Time Out
1980 Travels in Morocco . Poster for BBC Proms London.
Portrait s of Kenneth MacMillan and Zandra Rhodes
1981 Portrait of Lady Diana for a Time Magazine Cover [Unused]
Drawings for Ian Mcewan for The South Bank Show on television.
Portrait of Sir Peter Pears
1982 The Costume Party' solo exhibition of pastels at the Francis Kyle Gallery,
London
'Theatre Stamps' drawn for the British Post Office, won the top prizes in
in an international competition in Italy, including 'The Most Beautiful stamp in
the World'
A Drawing of Pope John Paul II, used as a sleeve for a record of his sermons in the
U.K., now in theVatican
1983 Contributed by invitation to an exhibition of ' British Contemporary Painting 'at
the Museo Municipale Madrid.
'The Male Nude' a group exhibition London
Exhibited at the Greene Street Gallery New York
Portrait of Germaine Greer
1984 'Paintings' solo exhibition at Francis Kyle Gallery London
Print retrospective at Seen Gallery London
' Drawings ' Exhibition at Masavi Art Centre New York
1985 Solo exhibition 'In Arcadia' at the Francis Kyle Gallery
Drew 'Christmas Pantomime' stamps for the British Post Office
Awarded the Phillips Gold Medal for stamp design
1986 Portrait of William Golding, Nobel prize winning author, bought by The
National Portrait Gallery
Invited exhibitor at the Royal Academy
Travels in the USA
Portrait of Kingsley Amis
1987 Living in Paris.
Designed sets and costumes for Madame Butterfly at the Monte Carlo Opera
[Unfinished]
1988 Paintings for 'Circus' Exhibition at the Theatre Museum London
Prints Shown at The Royal College of Art
Solo Exhibition 'Nuits Blanche' at Francis Kyle Gallery
1989 Travelled to Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands
Gave a lecture on my work at F.I.T. In New York
1990 Solo Exhibition 'The South Seas' at theFrancis Kyle Gallery.
1991 Paintings 'Mozarts Travels' shown at the Lincoln Center New York
1992 Travels in the Caribbean
'Martinique' Solo exhibition Francis Kyle Gallery London
1993 Portrait of Francis Partridge for a 'Bloomsbury ' exhibition
Writing and drawing travel stories in Japan and Tangier for the Sunday Times
and Key West for the Daily Telegraph
Portraits of Paul Bowles, the Hon. David Herbert, Edmund White and James Lord
1994 'Paris in August ' solo exhibition at the Francis Kyle Gallery
'Paris in August' an illustrated diary published by Peter Owen
Travel stories with drawings from Egypt, Rajasthan and Majorca for the
Sunday Times. Portraits of The Maharajah of Jodhpur and Paul Roche
1995 Travel stories with drawings from the Venice Carnival, St Petersburg and
Sri Lanka for the Sunday Times
Portrait of Sir Arthur C Clarke now in the National Portrait Gallery
1996 Watercolours and drawings, solo show at Francis Kyle Gallery
1997 London, Paris and New York
1998 Solo exhibition 'Night Paintings' at Francis Kyle Gallery
1999 Living in Paris, portrait of Francoise Gilot
2000 'Art of Memory' Exhibition at Francis Kyle. Portrait of Simon Callow
2001 Illustrated 'Summer in the Country' by Poulet Malassis for the Erotic Book Society
2002 Living in Paris visited St Petersburg
2003 Illustrated a Charlotte Bronte unpublished novel in a supplement for the Times
2004 Paris. Drawing of the Gangsters Wife
2005 'Carnival of Desire' a solo exhibition at the Chris Beetles Gallery London
2006 'Floral Room' paintings. Portrait of Peter Ackroyd
2007 New York ,Paris,London. Drawings sold at Christies
2008 Paris
2009 'My Blue Heaven' an exhibition of drawings in Paris
2010 Paintings for 'The Art Of Travel'
2011 In memoriam drawings at the Chelsea Arts Club
2012 Drawing for 'Save the Children'
2013 ' South of France 'Paintings
2014 'Kensington Gardens' Drawings
2015 Drawing for Thea Porter at the Fashion Museum London
2016 Glasgow University received a bequest of drawings, made in the 1970s, for
the Glasgow Citizens Theatre.
Drawing of David Bowie sold at Christies
2017 'New York Days ' Paintings