Tuesday Evening Lectures

Roger Cecil (1942–2015)

David Buckman of the Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945 said, ‘In nine years of gathering material for a dictionary containing over 10,000 names, he remains the most impressive discovery.’ He was one of the most able and prolific artists of his generation but he was unmoved by exhibitions, groups or status and he remained all his life in the mining valley where he grew up, often working as a labourer and open-cast miner to support his art.