
Painter and teacher, born Middlesex. Was at Twickenham School of Art, 1958–9, and Kingston College of Art, 1959–63. In 1963–4 he won a Leverhulme Travelling Scholarship, enabling him to work on the continent including a period at British School in Rome. In 1966 he was assistant to Bryan Kneale and began teaching at London College of Printing. After travelling to America on a Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Travel Bursary, 1966–7, Carter taught widely, including Royal College of Art and University of Reading. From 1968 had a series of solo shows at Redfern Gallery, later showing with Nicola Jacobs Gallery. Was a Tolly Cobbold Exhibition prizewinner in 1981. Carter’s work was enigmatic, abstract, graceful and still, with a painter’s interest in colour and space.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)