Artist in oil on cotton on paper and watercolour, born and lived in London. Hanley was a part-time student at Central School of Art briefly, but was mainly self-taught. His painting life began in the mid-1950s. He was a journalist at night, painting during the day, and did not become a full-time artist until he was 55, in 1987. There were many changes in Hanley’s work, the most lasting influences being Ben Nicholson and Morandi. “I do not paint of things,” he wrote, but “about things and feelings.” Among Hanley’s many mixed show appearances were AIA Gallery, St Pancras and Camden Festivals, Tib Lane Gallery in Manchester, RA Summer Exhibitions, Phoenix Gallery in Lavenham and Thackeray Gallery. He had a solo show at Royal Society of Arts in 1962, later ones including, in 1991, Broughton House Gallery in Cambridge, Phoenix Gallery and Bronwen White Gallery, New Orleans.