Painter, draughtsman and teacher producing highly stylised figure paintings, with claustrophobic, disturbing and humorous elements, which drew on his imagination, dreams and life events. As a child he was fascinated by his nurse mother’s anatomy and physiology books from which he would copy, and Ennis remained a compulsive sketcher. Born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, he did a foundation art course at Burnley College of Art and Technology, 1977; graduated with honours from Bristol Polytechnic, 1978–81; then completed a postgraduate teaching certificate at Reading University, 1982–3, after which he taught, from 1991 at Reading Blue Coat School, Sonning-on-Thames. Mixed shows included Stowells Trophy Competition, RA, 1981; RWA from 1981; Summer Exhibition at Anthony Hepworth, Bath, 1991; and The Jelly Leg’d Chicken, Reading, from 1994–5.