Artist and designer, born in London, where he studied art at the Northampton Road Polytechnic. During World War II he studied at the Bardi Studio in Cairo, then at the Malta School of Art, where he gained first prize for figure drawing. After the war Weiss continued his studies at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art before attending St Martin’s School of Art, where he gained his diploma in painting. From 1950–5 he and his wife lived in Alabama in America where they designed and executed murals and mosaics for commercial clients. On returning, Weiss designed and made enamelled jewellery for Harrods and Heal’s, a silk scarf for Hardy Amies, stained glass windows for the Stock Exchange in Johannesburg, South Africa, and a mosaic wall for Michelsons Ltd.