Painter, notably of landscapes in oil, and teacher; born in London. Studied at Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, part-time in 1931–9, then from 1946–8 full-time, his teachers including Percy Horton and Barnett Freedman. Showed Cooling Galleries, RBA, at public galleries in Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne and Darlington and had several one-man shows. Ashmolean Museum in Oxford holds his work. Lived in Barnard Castle, County Durham, where Glaxo Laboratories commissioned a mural by him.