Born in Kingston, Jamaica on 27th February 1933 and settled in
Britain in 1946. He studied at King’s School, Canterbury and Merton
College, Oxford, and was an Education Officer in the Royal Air Force and
an advertising copywriter before becoming a freelance author, journalist
and broadcaster. He began his literary career as a poet, has published
four collections of poetry with Oxford University Press and is currently
a member of the Académie Europenne de Poésie. He is well known for his
numerous books on art and related subjects and has acted as curator for
many exhibitions and lectured extensively all over the world.
