2006"The Revisionist Wire Works" paintings
Invited to work at Castillo de Santa Catalina studios Cadiz, Spain.
2005Working on 'Encounter in a Third Style' series of wire mesh paintings and 'The Percival David Watercolours'.
Bernard Jacobson publishes a series of digital prints The Arcadian Quest Quartet.
Work begins on a three-dimensional multiple 'The Charterhouse Equation'
Commissioned to design a stained glass window for Arts and Crafts church at Gunnerton, Northumberland.
2004Design etched glass vase "The Prague Vase"
2003Invited to Tobago, working on the watercolour series 'In the South'.
2002'Hardware: Variations on a Theme of Encounter' an exhibition and book of the same title.
2001In New York State working on 'The Bedford Hills Watercolours' and a series of castings in silver and bronze at Polich Artworks Foundry New York.
Invited to work in Co. Kerry Ireland at Cill Rialaig Project. "The Age of Anxiety Watercolours"
2000Living and working in North Yorkshire 'The Encounter Works' of painted constructs.
Publication of "Against the Grain" a major monograph by Norbert Lynton.
1998In North Yorkshire working on 'The Paris Fluorescent Paintings'.
Short-listed for the Jerwood Prize.
1997Living and working in Paris on the 'Paris Interior Series'
1995Working in North Yorkshire on 'The Fluxion Paintings'
1994Travelled to Italy visiting Florence Ravenna and Mantua Worked on 'The Black Haven Paintings'.
1993Visited Pennsylvania to make a series of watercolours based on Frank Lloyd Wright house 'Falling Water'. Also visited Cooperstown, Lake Otsego and the James Fenimore Cooper collection of Native American artifacts.
Worked on 'The Katchina Paintings'.
1992Invited with a group of artists to visit Ireland to make a series of drawings at the Lake Isle of Innisfree to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Yeats.
1990Made the 'Living in Arcadia' paintings.
Invited to work with Mixographia in Los Angeles on large scale relief prints. Travelled through California and Arizona.
Commissioned to make the painting for Timberlake Wertenbaker Play 'Three Birds Alighting on a Field' at the Royal Court. Commission for the Broadgate Development London 'The Mechanics Institute II' painting.
1989Worked on a ceramics with The Fulham Pottery.
1987Moved to Westwood Studios in North Yorkshire, working on 'The Westwood Paintings'.
1984Travelled extensively through South Western America making drawings 'The Arizona By-Ways' and 'The Los Angeles By-Ways'.
Visited the John Wayne collection of Kachinas and The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Taliesin, Phoenix.
1983Travelled through France Switzerland and Italy working on 'The Grand Tour' watercolour series.
1981Appointed Artist in Residence at Melbourne University, Australia .Visited Sydney, Adelaide and The Simpson Desert. Painted the Open Mesh canvases.
1980Returned to live and work in North Yorkshire.
1978Moved to Wiltshire and started working on the wire mesh/collage paintings.
1977Spent time working in Sweden prior to his Gothenburg exhibition.
1975Travelled to Utrecht for a retrospective exhibition of his work at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
Moved to Providence, Rhode Island, USA as visiting Professor at Brown University. Travelled through the Eastern States.
1974Visit to New York for the opening of his first one-man exhibition there.
Visit to Los Angeles to work at Cirus Editions on 'The Bel Air Lithographs' .
Moved into London Bridge studio working on "The Florist Paintings" and with Advanced Graphics on a portfolio of prints "A Furnished Landscape".
Started work on illustrations for 'A Rebours' by J.K. Huysmans.
Spent the summer in Verona working on his first 'Hotel Room watercolours'.
1970Visiting Lecturer Watford School of Art.
1968Son York born.
1967Daughter Kim born.
1964Visiting Lecturer Bath Academy of Art.
Visiting Lecturer Central School of Art.
1963Returned to London and married Judith Jackson.
Started part-time work at Chelsea School of Art, London
Taught etching at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham
1962Made first woodcut prints in Edinburgh. Awarded French Government Scholarship to study gravure under William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris.
1960Studied painting under William Coldstream and etching under Anthony Gross at the Slade School, London.
1958Visited Paris for the opening of the Unesco Building and the inaugural exhibition.
1956Studied painting at Middlesbrough College of Art.
1938Born Middlesbrough, Yorkshire