Artist who favoured tempera, and teacher, born in Liverpool, who settled with his family in Sunderland, County Durham, 1918. Attended Bede Grammar School, then the local Art School under Richard Ray, eventually opting to teach still life, landscape, pattern construction and textile printing there. Showed at RA, Society of Mural Decorators and Painters in Tempera, RP and with Sunderland Art Club, of which he was chairman. Wood’s portrait in tempera on board of his colleague John Summers, with whom he shared sketching holidays, exhibited RP in 1937 and latterly in a private collection, was shown at Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery in 1995.