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1910-1988, born in Dorking, Surrey. Educated at Bedales School and
Cambridge University, where he was a member of the Experiments group.
For several years in the early 1930s studied with S W Hayter at Atelier
17 in Paris. His pictures, in a variety of styles, retained a dreamlike,
often childlike, fantastic quality. Was married to the potter, Ursula
Darwin, marriage dissolved in 1950; then the painter Mary Fedden from
1951. He was a tutor at the Chelsea School of Art, 1950-60, and
engraving tutor at the Royal College of Art, 1955-63. Made hon. senior
RA in 1986. Published his autobiography Indigo Days in 1957. Tate
Gallery holds his work. |