Painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher who studied at Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1947–9, then Slade School of Fine Art, 1949–52, teachers including William Coldstream and Graham Sutherland. He was a member of the Printmakers’ Council and Midland Group of Artists. Showed at Gimpel Fils, AIA, LG, Redfern Gallery and New Vision Centre and International Print Biennales in Tokyo and Florence. Commissions included murals and bas-reliefs at New Hospital, Netheredge, Sheffield, and a series of panels for Royal Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. Arts Council, Victoria & Albert Museum, provincial art galleries, education authorities and overseas galleries hold Hawkins’ work. He became director of art at Repton School, living at Repton, Derbyshire.