My father, Hugh Dunford Wood, who has died aged 76, was an artist who painted landscapes and portraits, set up a successful fashion business hand-painting silk ties, and collaborated with brands such as Paul Smith, Yohji Yamamoto and Harrods. He also designed flatware, sculpture, jewellery, fabrics and even had a parallel career hand-printing colourful wallpaper for the Hamilton Weston historical wallpaper company.
Born in Watlington, Oxfordshire, to Angela (nee Elliot), a nurse and physiotherapist, and Colin Dunford Wood, an RAF pilot, Hugh went to Wellington college, a public school in Berkshire, and then studied at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, in the 1970s.
