My husband, Steve Lobb, who has died aged 87, was a mural artist in the community arts movement, working in south-east London. He was also a performance poet appearing under the name of Emile Sercombe.
Born in Ilford, Essex (now in the London borough of Redbridge), Steve was one of the four sons of Mary (nee Davey), a potter, and Richard Lobb, an insurance clerk who enjoyed painting. In 1939, at the outbreak of the second world war, the family moved to Bookham and then Fetcham in Surrey.
