Biography
Painter and collagist, notbaly of abstract work, born in Middlesex. From 1934-38 Milnes-Smith studied at the architectural Association, specialising in historic buildings, qualifying in 1939.

From 1940-44 war service took him to the Far east. His paintings in the late-1940s were representational, although he fast moved towards abstraction, in 1951 being represented in British Abstract Art at Gimpel fils, the first of many group appearances in the 1950s. In 1959 he had his first solo show at New Vision Centre, four years later beginning a lonf association with Drian Galleries.

In 1988 he shared a show called 'Reflections of the Fifties' at England & Co., and in 1990 was given a retrospective at Austin/Desmond Fine Art. The National Gallery in Gdansk, Poland, holds his work.