 During the late 1930s the artist's output was mainly Neo-Romantic landscapes and in 1940 he was commissioned to paint topographical watercolours of endangered sites in Sussex for the Recording Britain project organised by the Pilgrim Trust.In the early 1940s he moved to "Ethel House", in the north Essex village of Great Bardfield.The artist held his first (of many) one-man shows at the famous Redfern Gallery, London in 1942.