Mural painter and draughtsman, born in Belfast, who studied at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, attended local College of Art in evenings and had private lessons from R Boyd Morrison. Exhibited at RHA, RUA and RBA, contributed drawings of air raids in World War II to Ulster Museum and gained a name painting portraits of military personnel. He painted a first mural at British Restaurant in Belfast, then shortly after the war moved to London where he established an international reputation as a muralist. In the mid-1960s he completed a huge mural for the Playhouse Theatre in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, under the patronage of Lord and Lady Beaverbrook. Also painted murals in a number of liners, including Canadian Pacific’s Empress of Britain.