Painter and stained glass artist, born in Birmingham into a family closely associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement and the teachings of William Morris, his father being the stained glass creator Henry Payne, his mother, Edith, a watercolourist. Studied at Royal College of Art, 1924–7, under William Rothenstein, then returned to Gloucestershire to help his father with glass commissions. Showed RA and NEAC. Work held by Imperial War Museum and Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, but is best seen in Gloucestershire churches, including Randwick, Box, Edge and Minchinhampton, where he died. Moss Galleries handled Payne’s work, and in 1995 Rachel Moss published a monograph and gazetteer of his windows.