Philip Reeves obituary

The career of my friend the artist, printmaker and art school lecturer Philip Reeves, who has died aged 85, coincided with a radical, international shift in the status of limited edition printmaking as an art form rather than a craft.The son of Bert Reeves, a printer and proofreader, and his wife, Lillian (nee Langford), Philip was one of twin boys born in Cheltenham. He went to school locally, then trained at Cheltenham School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London (RCA), after undertaking