Painter, notably in watercolour, who studied at Cumbria College of Art and Design and Falmouth School of Art. In 1988 he was commissioned by the National Trust’s Foundation for Art to paint at Stourhead, then at Claremont, 1989. He showed in The Secret Garden at Colegate Gallery, Cockermouth, and in the same year, 1989, at Oriel Gallery, Welshpool. In the following year Longcake participated in Agnew’s show The Broad Horizon.