Artist in paint and mixed media, including such elements as found ceramic fragments, and art critic, born in Cork, Ireland, as Peter Sheldon-Williams. He came from a long line of painters. As a critic for the International Herald Tribune and as a broadcaster he wrote as Sheldon Williams (omitting the hyphen). He hated his English public school, regarded himself as an outsider and through Eric Gill’s recommendation studied with John Cooper and John Skeaping at Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1935–6; at the Académie Julian, Paris, 1936; École des Beaux-Arts, Epinal; and Lemmel-Schule, Berlin. Showed extensively in mixed exhibitions, including Wertheim Gallery, Leicester Galleries, Kaplan and Brook Street Galleries. One-man shows included Galerie Zak, Paris, 1936; Wertheim Gallery, 1937; Chiltern Gallery, from 1958; International Arts Festival, Harlow, 1965; and Windsor Arts Centre, 1986; retrospectives at Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, and Belgrave Gallery, 1995.