Derek Hyatt obituary

Landscape painter inspired by the rugged beauty of his native YorkshireThe painter Derek Hyatt, who has died aged 84, found in the landscapes of Yorkshire a subject of unending variety. Turning his back on London and on fashion, Hyatt produced distinctive, richly coloured paintings occasioned by events that he called “meetings on the moor” – the movement of a distant figure through a bright field of hay or the sudden appearance of a kestrel against the sunset. His idiom oscilla