Painter and teacher, born in Manchester, where he attended the Grammar School, then Chelsea School of Art, gaining his master’s degree in art history. He taught in a tough secondary school in London, where he lived. Mixed shows included Pure Paint, Stephen Lacey Gallery, 1999, the year he had a solo exhibition at Highgate Literary Scientific Institution, with another at Highgate Gallery in 2003. Works there were described as “rippling with bright colours and dancing with Pollock drips and smears…the sum of a multitude of split-second decisions interspersed with contemplation over weeks and months.” Rockefeller Center, New York, in America; Chase Manhattan Bank; and the television company Granada owned his work.