Philip Hartigan obituary

My brother-in-law, Philip Hartigan, who has died of a heart attack aged 67, was one of the pioneer street mural artists working in London from the swinging 60s through to the 1980s.He always knew that he needed to live the life of an artist but, as he later said: “I didn’t like what art school did to my friends.” So he left his home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, after his A-levels, and got his first real chance to learn and practise art through the English psychedel