Printmaker, watercolourist and teacher, born in Sydenham, southeast London. He was the husband of the artist Sheila Robinson, their daughter being the artist Chloë Cheese. Studied at Royal College of Art, 1947–50, where Edwin La Dell persuaded Cheese to make lithographs. Taught printmaking at St Martin’s School of Art, Goldsmiths’ College and Central School of Art and Design. Was elected RE in 1988. Exhibitions included Senefelder Club, Beaux Arts and St George’s Galleries, Heffer Gallery in Cambridge, John Russell Gallery in Ipswich, which gave Cheese a seventy-fifth birthday show in 2000, and RA. HM The Queen, Arts Council, Victoria & Albert Museum, Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden and several major American collections hold examples.