Artist, designer and teacher, born in Formby, Lancashire. After education at the Oratory School, Caversham, in Berkshire, he studied at Royal College of Art, 1933–6. Taught at Chelsea School of Art, 1946–79. Showed at LG, St George’s Gallery, Redfern Gallery and elsewhere. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, hold his work. He also did work for companies such as Imperial Chemical Industries and Shell. Sculpture was completed for Coventry Cathedral; the United States National War Memorial, Washington Cathedral; and a water sculpture for the British Pavilion, Expo ’67. Lived latterly at Midhurst, Sussex.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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