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In 1936 he returned to London and was commissioned to design the sets and costumes for Insect Play and his work was acclaimed in The Sunday Times.

He also began teaching life drawing at Westminster School of Art where he met painter Maeve Gilmore, whom he married in 1937.

They had three children, Sebastian ( b. 1940 ), Fabian ( b. 1942 ), and Clare ( b. 1949 ).