Watercolourist, printmaker, designer and teacher, born in Rishton, Lancashire, married to the artist Denise Hoyle. He studied at Beckenham School of Art and at Royal College of Art, 1940–2 and 1947–8, under Edward Bawden. From 1948–9 he was artist attached to the Byzantine Institute in Istanbul. Work that he saw there influenced Hoyle, who also claimed to be “an English romantic with a love of France”. Hoyle taught at St Martin’s School of Art, 1951–60; Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1960–4; and Cambridge School of Art, 1964–85. While in Cambridge he launched Cambridge Print Editions, which produced limited editions of artists’ prints. Editions of his own prints were commissioned by Editions Alecto, Christie’s Contemporary Art and Folio Society.