Artist in oil, film and photography and producer of books, born in Cornwall, son of the painter Peter Lanyon. After an early enthusiasm for photography Lanyon studied at London School of Film Technique in 1966. He worked with film and photography and then turned to painting and making books, the first being Snap, in 1970. Other titles included The Vanishing Cabinet, Paul Feiler, Peter Lanyon 1918–1964 and an Art-Fi series: Deadpan, Second Nature, The Loose Connection, The Unjustified Text and The Quick Change Act. Lanyon’s pictures were often on a small scale, with a wry quality, as in his entries for Artists from Cornwall, at RWA, 1992. The Book Gallery, St Ives, held exhibitions, including 1998, of paintings and hollow books. Lanyon’s retrospective 100 Hollow Books was held at bookartbookshop in 2003.