Artist, illustrator and teacher, born in Dorking, Surrey, who studied at Weston School of Art, Central St Martin’s School of Art & Design and Cracow Academy of Fine Art, Poland. Lectured at Weston School part-time, 1988–96, and from 1996 at West Herts College in Watford. In 1996 curated the No Visa Required III show at Polish Cultural Institute. Gilvan-Cartwright won a Thames Television Travel Bursary, 1987–8, and a British Council/Polish Government Travel Scholarship, 1990–2. Heinemann, Penguin, Quartet Publishing and national newspapers commissioned his work. He also created the BBC Proms logo in 1998 and 1999. Group shows included Art for Aids, Royal Festival Hall, 1987; Artforum, 1995; and Royal Over-Seas League Open, 1996. Later solo shows included The Sun Calls me Home, Sydney House, 1996; East West, 2000; and Royal Over-Seas League, 2000–1, the artist having won one of its scholarships, to India and Nepal.