Amongst Britain’s most outstanding, respected and poetic landscape painters, Cuming was born in London and educated at Sidcup School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1974 and a member of the New English Art Club, 1960, and is the winner of many awards.

In 2001 he was the featured artist at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and in 2004 was awarded an honourary doctorate from the University of Kent at Canterbury. His work is represented in private and corporate collections in fifteen countries.