Portraiture
His portraiture in public collections includes:
- Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) - purchased in 1978 for the Primary Collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London
- Emanuel Shinwell (Manny, later, Lord) - Bronze head was purchased (accession number S.309) for the Collection of Glasgow City Art Gallery. in 1973.
- A. S. Neill, the renowned educationist of Summerhill School - Bronze heads are located at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh and the American College of Orgonomy, New York.
- Tom Stoppard - Bronze head is with the Stoppard papers in the reading room of the Harry Ransom Centre at the University of Texas.
- Sydney Gordon Russell - Bronze head is in the collection of the Gordon Russell Museum in Broadway, Worcestershire.
Other eminent figures who sat included Enoch Powell, Christabel Bielenberg, Frank Cousins, Richard Rodney Bennett, Michael Cardew, Sir Colin Davis and Basil Bunting.
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