Painter, collagist and teacher who did figurative and abstract work, with a special interest in weather and the sea. He was born in Southampton and educated in Bournemouth, Hampshire. Studied at City & Guilds Art School, St Martin’s School of Art, 1946–9, and Royal College of Art, 1949–52, under Rodrigo Moynihan. Taught at St Martin’s and from 1964 was head of fine art at Wimbledon School of Art. Showed at RA, Young Contemporaries and in the provinces and had a first solo exhibition at Beaux Arts Gallery in 1956. Tate Gallery and Arts Council, which in 1976 staged a retrospective, hold examples. Lived for many years in London and was married to the artist Evelyn Williams.