Portrait and animal painter and draughtsman in black-and-white. He studied at Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art, 1934–6, teachers including Harry Watson and Stuart Tresilian; City and Guilds of London Art School, 1936–9, with A R Middleton Todd and James Grant; then Spenlove School, 1939, with Reginald Eves. Showed at RP, RA and elsewhere and lived in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, for many years.