Self-taught artist, born in Manchester, who left school at 15. Manchester City Art Gallery holds Clover’s Your Memory is Your Bible, Your Imagination Your Future, acrylic on hardboard. Clover claimed to have developed his own form of art, Symbolic Perspective, explained in the artist’s privately produced publication Before the Parable: A Fordigraph Sketch (with poems), a copy of which is held by the Gallery’s archive.