Sculptor, painter, draughtsman, potter, printmaker and teacher, born in Hersham, Surrey. After school worked for a firm of Lloyd’s brokers for seven years, then served in Army, 1941–6, partly in East Africa. After a period as a potter he studied at Kingston School of Art under Reginald Brill, 1946–9, with some time in 1948 at Burslem College of Art, during which Arnold Machin advised him to take up sculpture. This he did at Slade School of Fine Art, 1949–52, under A H Gerrard. Went on to teach: part-time at Kingston, 1950–2, and Hammersmith School of Art, 1951–2; at Southend-on-Sea School of Art, 1952–8; then from 1958 at West of England College of Art (later Bristol Polytechnic), becoming principal lecturer in the faculty of art and design.