Artist and teacher, husband of the painter Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, father of the artist TessAnna Hoare. He was born in Ampleforth, Yorkshire, and studied at Chelsea School of Art; art education and philosophy at University of Wales, Swansea; printmaking for a year at Royal College of Art; then educational television, mime with Ronald Wilson, and modern dance with Rosemary Butcher, Riverside Studios. Hoare did wide-ranging teaching, including Central St Martins School of Art & Design; Aegean School of Art, Kos, Greece, which he initiated in 1985; the drama department, University of Bristol; Camberwell School of Art; and in America. He did performance work in Britain, America, Yugoslavia and Canada, in 1991 being designer, Royal Opera House, Carnival of the Birds.