1895-1974
British painter and poet. Known for watercolours, illustrations and inscriptions.
As a painter, he worked mainly in watercolour on portraits and animal, landscape and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and inscription painter.
As a poet, he was the author of 'In Parenthesis' (1937) and the long prose poem 'The Anathemata' (1952) among others.
He managed to join his poetry with his paintings.
As a painter, he was, according to Kenneth Clark, "absolutely unique, a remarkable genius".