Graham Boyd obituary

When abstract expressionism arrived in Britain in the 1950s, Graham Boyd, who has died at the age of 96, was one of few artists who embraced the libertine scale and dynamism of American painting. Over a 70-year career, based latterly in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, he made his own explorations of colour and light in non-figurative paintings and sculpture.Born in Bristol to Herbert, a leather tradesman, and Hilda (nee Duckett), Graham’s path to abstraction was not straightforward. After two