Colin Dick obituary

When my friend Colin Dick died aged 88, I was part way through cataloguing his prolific output of paintings. This fascinating journey followed on from Richard Yeomans’ critical survey Colin Dick: Seeing Life (2011).Colin was born in Cheam, Surrey, the son of Stanley Dick, an administrator for BP, and his wife, Mabel (nee Cant); wartime evacuation of his father’s company took the family to Henley, in Oxfordshire. After the second world war, Colin studied at St Martin’s School of