 In the 1930s, for example, as John Hewitt has recorded, topical books such as Roger Fry's "Vision and Design", Clive Bell's "Art" and R.H. Wilenski's "Modern Movement in Art" directed his thinking.From the late 1930s until 1943, when he produced "Pax", there was a gap in his output, occasioned, no doubt, by his move to County Armagh in order to escape Belfast after the Blitz.In 1946 he held his first one-man exhibition at the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, and this was followed two years later by a similar show, held under the aegis of CEMA, nearby at number 55A Donegal Place.