Artist and teacher, born in Leek, Staffordshire, married to the stained glass artist Bronwen Gordon. Pulsford studied at Edinburgh College of Art, 1933–6. In 1937 he attended the Patrick Allan–Fraser School of Art, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, had a postgraduate year in 1938, in 1938–9 gaining a travelling scholarship. His fellowship at Edinburgh College of Art, 1939–47, was interrupted by two years’ war service. He was elected an associate of the RSA in 1959, the first abstract artist so honoured. Pulsford taught at Edinburgh College of Art, 1947–60, then for four years was initially a teacher at Loughborough College of Art before being made vice-principal and head of fine art at Wolverhampton Polytechnic. He retired in 1972 after a period as a visiting lecturer at the University of Edinburgh’s architecture department.