Painter, designer and jazz guitarist producing landscapes with a strong abstract element. He was born in Warsash, Hampshire, and attended Portsmouth Art College, 1978–9; graduated with honours in fine art from Exeter College of Art and Design, 1979–83; gained his teaching certificate at Exeter University, 1993–4; and his master’s in fine art postgraduate diploma from Plymouth University, 1998–01. As a digital set designer at the University Frampton used computers to manipulate scanned images of the early stages of his paintings to achieve the final canvas, on which he built up complex surface levels using layering techniques. He lived in the West Country, where the coastal and moorland environment of Devon and Cornwall were important inspirations.