Printmaker and painter, born in Carlisle, Cumberland, partner of the artist Jenny Cowern. He studied at Carlisle College of Art, 1956–61, under Jack Seabury, gaining his diploma at the Royal Academy Schools, 1961–4. Higgs won an Abbey Minor Scholarship in Painting, 1966, and a Northern Arts Purchase Award in 1985. The consistent interest running through his work was “my desire to remove tone (black and white) from colour relationships, so that the full chromatic (red-blue-yellow) value can be seen. The reason for being of these prints is colour: its quantities, proportions and relationships.” Group shows included Mini Print International, Cadaques, Barcelona, Spain, from 1990; The Art of the Printmaker, Royal Festival Hall, 1991; and 3rd Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan, 1996.