Painter of plants and wildlife, based in Leeds, Yorkshire, whose small suburban garden and the county’s moors and woods provided subjects for his meticulous pictures. Booth trained at Leeds College of Art in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when he found himself out of sympathy with modern trends in painting. After tuberculosis and an enforced stay in a sanatorium, he found that collectors such as Ernest Thesiger and Lord Fairhaven were acquiring the type of picture he wanted to paint, and he was able to combine his obsessive interests of artist and plantsman. Exhibited solo at The Fine Art Society, his 1982 show providing the means to buy the two things he most needed: another deep-freeze, to keep natural history specimens separate from his food, and a portable spotlight, enabling him during the dull winter months to garden after dark, saving daylight hours for painting.