Artist and teacher, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, who studied at the University there, 1970–4, then at the British School at Rome, on an Abbey Major Scholarship, 1974–5. Kidd said that his strongly gestural paintings were “about places…neither wholly abstract nor representational. Making paintings is about handling paint, but in the handling they become visual metaphors”. Kidd taught at Trent Polytechnic and Reading University, 1975–6, and at Newcastle University, 1976–80; lived in San Francisco, California, America, on a Harkness Fellowship, 1980; then in New York from 1981; returning to England, 1987. Awards included Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, equal first prize, and a prize at John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, both 1974; and in 1976 an Arts Council Award and Northern Arts Fellowship.