Painter and teacher who trained at Bolton and Lancaster Colleges of Art and until 1964 at the Slade School of Fine Art under Keith Vaughan and Claude Rogers. He painted large canvases, pictures intended for public spaces of large buildings, as in North by North West, at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, 1996. The River Lune, near where he lived, was a key theme. His landscapes used “conventional tools of paint and canvas, loosely designated as Abstract Expressionist, endorsing the importance of colour, compositional elements of the picture and the quality of the pictorial surface.” Held a number of part-time lecturing posts, eventually teaching at Kirkham Grammar School, Lancashire, an area where he showed widely.