Francis Hewlett RWA, 1930–2012. Painter, ceramic sculptor and teacher, born in Bristol. He studied painting and etching at the West of England College of Art. From 1952 he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and worked for a time with William Coldstream and Claude Rogers. He was head of painting at Falmouth School of Art, 1960–81, settling in the Cornish town after moving to the county in 1957. At Falmouth, he spearheaded new methods of teaching and, with the principal, Michael Finn, introduced the basic design course. Students flourished and the school became nationally famous. In 1977 Hewlett was Gregynog Arts Fellow, University of Wales, in Newtown. Hewlett worked in ceramics, mainly large-scale sculpture, 1968–75, then from 1981 concentrated on pictures of the Bristol Empire theatre, based on much earlier drawings. The colourful, evocative pictures were shown at Browse & Darby in 1993. Solo exhibition, Falmouth Art Gallery, 2000. Hewlett showed at the RA, RWA of which he was a member and at Newlyn Orion Gallery and in 1992 was included in Artists from Cornwall at RWA.