Bernard Kay obituary

My mentor and friend Bernard Kay, who has died aged 94, was an inspirational painter and etcher. Over the past 50 years or so, he produced a large variety of work, ranging from landscapes to abstracts.Bernard was born in Southport, Merseyside, above his father’s cycle shop. Encouraged by his parents, Elsie and Teddy, he studied at Liverpool School of Art and subsequently at the Royal Academy in London in 1948-49. In 1954 he won a French government scholarship to study in Paris, for paintin