During World War I he served as an intelligence officer in the Navy and was invalided out in 1917 when he spent a year working on dazzle camouflage for ships in Liverpool and Bristol. During the 1920’s he showed with the short-lived Group X but after he returned to a more straightforward representational style and travelled much abroad. A founder member of Unit One in 1934, he was also impressed at the time with the Abstraction-CrŽ ation movement in France. In 1943, he was elected an Associate of the RA and in 1952 his work was represented in the British pavilion at the Venice Biennale. A posthumous retrospective exhibition of his work was held in 1951 at the Tate Gallery and a later retrospective was held at the Camden Arts Centre, London in 1990. His work is held in art galleries around the world including ACGB, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, BM, CAS, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, IWM, Newport Art Gallery, Swindon Art Gallery, Tate, Towner Art Gallery, V&A and the Whitworth Art Gallery.