Artist in a wide range of media, and teacher, born in London, who studied at Bromley College of Art, 1951–5, then Brighton College of Art, 1957–8. Between 1958–86 he taught, for a time being head of the art department at Annadale Grammar School, Belfast; in 1984 he moved from Belfast to Dundrum, County Down; and in 1986 began to paint full-time. Croft began as a realistic painter but quickly became influenced by Geometric Formalisation and later by Geometric Abstraction, leading to constructions in wood and Perspex. In the 1960s he produced several kinetic works; in the 1970s slowly returned to realism, but still with a bias towards Geometric Cubism and a simplification of statement, using very thin paint and pale colour; with the move to Dundrum the move to realism continued, but his palette brightened.