Marine artist with a strong interest in sailing, born in Bournemouth, Hampshire. After King’s School, Canterbury, he studied at Southern School of Art, 1939–42, teachers including Leslie Ward and Geoffrey Baker, then Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1946, where John Farleigh, Laurence Scarfe and Jesse Collins were on the staff. In 1957 Foster was included in Jack Beddington’s book Young Artists of Promise, his Lady Francesca Entering St Vaast illustrated. Was a member of RSMA and has work in National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Lived in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, later in Bailey’s Bay, Bermuda.