Painter and teacher, born in London. Was married to the artist Margaret Green. Bulmer studied at Royal College of Art just after World War II and taught for many years at Kingston College of Art. His special subject was the Suffolk landscape, often small pictures painted with a quiet, sensitive precision and using such colours as lemon, emerald and lilac. As well as showing at Leicester Galleries, RA, NEAC and RWS (of both of which he was a member), Bulmer had solo exhibitions at New Art Centre. Lived at Onehouse, near Stowmarket, Suffolk. Lionel Bulmer: The Walberswick Influence was held at Messum’s Fine Art, 2002. In the same year Messum’s organised From City to Sea the painterly journey of Lionel Bulmer and Margaret Green.