Artist, author, illustrator and teacher, born in Leeds, Yorkshire, where he studied at the College of Art, 1960–5. He taught at Victoria & Albert Museum, 1967–74, and was part-time lecturer in fine art at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, 1974–86. Was included in The Self-Portrait: a Modern View, an exhibition which toured widely from Artsite Gallery, Bath, 1987. Held a first solo show in New York in 1974 and subsequently had one-man shows in Venice, Cardiff, Bradford, Aberdeen and San Francisco, being represented for a time by Nigel Greenwood, then Richard Dennis Gallery in 1996. Baxter made a name for his artworks published as books, such as The Billiard Table Murders, 1990, and Trundling Grunts, launched with a show of Baxter’s surreal artwork at Chris Beetles Ltd in 2002.