John Dougill obituary

My friend the artist and teacher John Dougill, who has died aged 81, was a highly influential force in London art schools for nearly four decades.

He grew up in Liverpool. As a child during the second world war he remembered watching the huge warships on the Mersey and collecting warm pieces of shrapnel after bombing raids on the docks. His mother, Ileene (nee Bridgwater), was a physiotherapist, and his father, Wesley, professor of architecture at Liverpool University, worked on the Abercrombie plan for London after the blitz.