Painter and draughtsman of elegant abstracts, and teacher, born in Shipley, Yorkshire. He studied at Bradford College of Art, 1956–60, and Royal Academy Schools, 1960–3, and was one of the group known as the “Bradford Mafia”, other members including Norman Stevens, Pete Kaye, David Hockney, John Loker and David Oxtoby. Gained a fellowship in painting at Manchester College of Art, 1963–4, teaching there, 1964–8, also at Hornsey College of Art, 1968–72. Group exhibitions included Young Contemporaries, 1963–4; New Generation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1964; British Painting Here and Now, Macy’s, New York, 1968; British Painting ’74, Arts Council, 1974; and 6 Bradford Artists, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, 1976. Had a series of solo shows at Hanover Gallery from 1968; at l’Uomo e l’Arte, Milan, 1972; and Gimpel Fils, 1979.