J. M. W. Turner. In 2013 Lord Volvo and his Estate (1982) by Ocean was voted one of 57 of the nation’s favourite paintings and appeared on billboards around Britain in Art Everywhere organised by the Art Fund. In 2014 he completed a portrait of Randy Lerner for the National Portrait Gallery. In the same year he advised on Turner's approach to perspective in Mike Leigh’s film Mr Turner. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Doctor by the University of Kent and in 2016 he was appointed a trustee of the Royal Drawing School. Ocean designed a road sign for his friend Margaret Calvert for the 50th Anniversary of the British Road Sign exhibition at the Design Museum (2015) and showed in books + papers (2015), "Wären Fluss und Meere Tinte..." (2017) and books + papers 2 (2019) at Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna. For the BBC, on Radio 4 he featured in Will Gompertz Gets Creative (2015), presented The Essay on Radio 3 on Impington Village College (2016) and Only Artists with Mark Alexander on Radio 4 (2018). In 2018 Ocean's solo exhibition I've No Idea Either of works on paper and sculpture was at Sims Reed Gallery London. In 2019 he had a solo exhibition Birds, Cars and Chairs in the Keeper's House at the Royal Academy of Arts. A 320 page full colour monograph of his work was published by the Royal Academy of Arts in autumn 2019. Simultaneously published by the RA is A Book of Birds by Humphrey Ocean. In 2020 he showed his painting Self in Me, Myself, I at Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna. Fresh as Paint, Ocean's personal selection of objects and art from the school collections will be shown at Eton College in 2022. Humphrey Ocean is married to artist Miranda Argyle and has two daughters, Ruby and Beatrice. He lives and works in south London. Solo exhibitions 1984: Paul McCartney New Portrait by Humphrey Ocean And Pictures Made on the 1976 Wings Tour, National Portrait Gallery 1992: Double-Portrait, Tate Liverpool 1997: urbasuburba (with Jock McFadyen), the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 1999: The Painter's Eye (with John Tchalenko), National Portrait Gallery, London 2003: how's my driving, Dulwich Picture Gallery 2006: How do you look (film with John Tchalenko), Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England 2009: Perfectly Ordinary, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University 2011: Here and There, Jesus College