My father, John Wormell (latterly John Linsey), who has died aged 97, was a painter who worked for many years as a senior lecturer in fine art at Hornsey College of Art in north London. He retired from the college at 56 to devote the rest of his life to his own work, producing a series of highly individualistic paintings that recalled the landscapes of his youth as he had recorded them in his sketchbooks from the early 1950s.
Inclined to shun the limelight, he was perhaps out of sympathy with the contemporary art world. He chose not to show his later work, concentrating solely on the business of painting pictures. These were always highly considered and no less passionate or deeply felt for the time he took in making them.
