Painter, printmaker and teacher, born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He studied at Shrewsbury Art School, 1948–9, then Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts, 1949–53, teachers including Bernard Fleetwood-Walker and Harold Smith. Showed with Young Contemporaries, Leicester Galleries, Keele University, Piccadilly Gallery and elsewhere. He held a Gulbenkian Fellowship at Keele, 1963–4. Victoria & Albert Museum and other public collections hold examples. Lived in Market Weighton, Yorkshire.