Son of the artist Spencer Gore, he studied at Trinity College and the Ruskin School of Drawing,
while reading Classics at Oxford (1932-4) and subsequently at the Westminster Art School and Slade (1934-7).
His first one-man show was held in 1937 at the Redfern Gallery and there again after the War.
He taught at Epsom College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and was head of painting at St Martin's School of Art (1951-79).
Elected Associate of The Royal Academy 1964; and was elected a Royal Academician in 1973 and Chairman of Royal Academy Exhibition Committee 1976-87.
Retrospectives of his work have been held at Gainsborough House (1979) , Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery and the Royal Academy (1989)
. His paintings have been exhibited in Paris and New York and are on permanent view to the public in Reading, Plymouth,
Liverpool and Southampton Art Gallery, Department of the Environment,
Contemporary Art Society, Rutherston Collection, Doncaster, Leicestershire County Council.
They feature in many private collections, including the one amassed by the late Lord Beaverbrook in New Brunswick.
They also adorn the walls of the British Embassy in Moscow and No.10 Downing Street.
He lived and worked in London and Provence and painted in New York.
Exhibitions:-
Redfern Gallery (five one-man shows 1949-62)
Mayor Gallery (two one-man shows)
Juster Gallery, New York (one-man show)

Contemporary Art Society Exhibitions, Tate Gallery (1954,56,58)
Books:-
Abstract Art, Methuen 1956
Painting: Some Basic Principles,Vista/Rheinhold 1965
Piero Della Francesca, The Baptism, Cassel 1969
Painters on painting.
as well as contributing many essays to catalogues

                    
"Path to Mausanne"                      Lavender, Bonnieux


                  
"Continental landscape"                "Olive trees in Provence"

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