Roger Brace  gained an Honours Degree at the Central School of Art, London in 1966.  He received a Peter Stuyvesant Fellowship and exhibited in the New Generation Exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1966 and 1968.

Since then he has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Clare College, Cambridge, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall and was selected to represent Britain in ‘Twelve British Painters’ at B.Altman,New York.  He has paintings in a permanent collection  at Chateau de la Linardie, France.  He has had his paintings discussed on ‘The Critics’, BBC radio and ‘Omnibus’ BBC Television.  Articles and reproductions have appeared in the ‘Observer’ the ‘Guardian’, ‘New York Times’ and ‘Studio International’.

Roger has spent much of his working life lecturing at various Colleges and Universities including Winchester School of Art, North Staffordshire University, Kent State University, USA and New York Studio School.

Due to a prolonged and serious bout of cancer he had to retire from teaching and his continuity in painting was disrupted.  Having lived in France during the major part of his illness he moved back to Penwith, Cornwall in 2004 where he is Director of the Valentine Le Grice Poetry Foundation and enjoys uninterrupted painting in his studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.