Painter and designer of interi- ors and fabrics, and teacher, born in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. His family owned the Manchester cotton mill John Walton of Colleyhurst, enabling him to attend Harrow School. Abandoned studies in an architect’s office to learn to paint under Stanhope Forbes, in Cornwall, then from 1913–16 was at Slade School of Fine Art and in Paris at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière. After World War I studied with Walter Sickert at Westminster School of Art. In London he began to exhibit and set up as an interior designer, in 1925 designing Marcel Boulestin’s first restaurant in Leicester Square. First one-man show at Beaux Arts Gallery in 1928; another followed at Arthur Tooth and Son in 1933; and mixed shows included LG, Wertheim Gallery, Leicester Galleries and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)