My friend and former colleague Anthony Dyson, who has died at the age of 91, was an artist, master printer, art historian and teacher. He acquired and applied an extraordinary range of skills and depth of knowledge that spanned the disciplines of art and education. In each discipline his contributions advanced both theory and practice, yet he wore his scholarship and practical skills lightly, and shared them generously.
After studying printmaking at Blackburn School of Art, he trained as a teacher at Leeds College of Art. He taught art in schools and later in colleges of education while studying part-time for a degree in art history at Birkbeck College and later for a PhD at the Courtauld Institute, before joining the staff of the department of art and design at the University of London, Institute of Education (IoE).
