Ironically, it was in 1980, Jamaica's most turbulent year politically, that Graham decided to make the island his permanent home. The following year he bought with his friend, an eighteenth-century great house outside Ocho Rios, which they turned into an art gallery called Harmony Hall. Now he had a home for his paintings, and thus began the settling in period.

The focus was now on establishing a name for himself and his gallery. There were many developments in the eighties which saw the staging of numerous exhibitions, the establishment of another Harmony Hall in Antigua and a growing number of patrons such as Margaret Trudeau, Christopher Blackwell and Lady Sarah Churchill who were starting to notice Graham and purchase his work. He was beginning to travel even more extensively in search of inspirational material for his paintings, and went to Africa, Asia and Australia for the first time during this decade.

The result of this travel was the creation of an extensive reservoir of images from exotic locales with which he became associated. By now, he was a recognized name not only in Jamaica, but also Caribbean art communities. He was invited to exhibit annually with the National Gallery of Jamaica, a privilege accorded few foreign artists. And into the nineties, there began a slew of international showings at Jamaican embassies and consulates in London, New York and Toronto as well as gallery showings in Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago.

Today, Graham divides his time between painting in Jamaica and continued travel abroad. "Golden Spring" where he lives, is a house that plays host to a great number of friends that have been close to him throughout the years. Gardening is a passion, as is listening to the music of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Bach. His interest in reading is catholic, with the possibility of works by such disparate authors as Amy Tan on the one hand and Stephen King on the other being bookmarked at any given moment. A film buff, he tries valiantly, often without success, to avoid every offering. And the cooking of food, especially of the continental kind, is a treasured indulgence. He was after all, employed as a chef in a French hotel briefly in the sixties.