Patrick Caulfield

PATRICK Caulfield, the creator of iconic pop art paintings, died on Thursday aged 69.
He lived for 30 years in Primrose Hill and produced many of his works from his home in Fitzroy Road, where he lived with his former wife, Pauline, and their three sons.
Born in Acton, west London, he left school aged 15 and worked for pickle makers Crosse and Blackwell.
He graduated from being a filing clerk to the firm’s design studios and then joined the RAF, aged 17, to do his national service.
While serving, he was given leave to study art in the evenings.
He then secured a place at the Royal College of Art in 1960 and studied there at the same time as artist David Hockney.
Labour councillor and ex-mayor Harriet Garland was a neighbour in Primrose Hill. She said: “I used to run into him at gallery openings. You would spot him walking up and down Primrose Hill. He was well known round here, and was a nice man.”
Leslie Waddington, who runs Waddington Gallery in Cork Street and represented the artist, said: “I completely respected him both as a human being and as an artist.
“He was one of the outstanding artists of his generation anywhere in the world.”

DAN CARRIER