Cliff Holden obituary

My friend Cliff Holden, who has died aged 100, was a painter, printmaker, designer and teacher and – as a student of the artist David Bomberg – the first president of the Borough Group, which brought Bomberg and his students together, in 1946.In this role, Cliff was a major influence in two decades of British art following the war but, unlike his peers, such as his former partner the artist Dorothy Mead, is still overlooked in Britain as a painter. Instead, he settled in Sweden, wher