Painter in oil and watercolour, and teacher, born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, married to the artist Jean Osborne. He studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, 1946–50, on a London County Council grant, teachers including William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore and John Minton, gaining his diploma in 1950. Also attended Heatherley’s School of Fine Art. In 1952 he emigrated to Canada, settling in St Catharines, Ontario, conducting evening art classes at St Catharines Collegiate and at Smithville High School and courses in portraiture and landscape for Lakehead Area Art Association. Showed widely in Canada and his 10-foot mural of a central scene of Welland, in the Sundy-Macmillan Chiropractic Clinic there, was completed in 1959, the year he returned to Britain to head the art department at Portadown Technical College.