Roland Collins obituary

Painter with a feeling for the unusual and overlooked detail of the British landscapeThe artist Roland Collins, who has died aged 97, was a fine painter of places in the realistic tradition of the English watercolourists. For years he worked away in relative obscurity, though his pictures were shown in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition and at art fairs, but then in 2012 came his apotheosis: a major exhibition at Mascalls Gallery in Paddock Wood, Kent, which turned out to be a huge popu