My friend and one-time neighbour Cedric Titcombe, who has died aged 81, was an art teacher and artist who worked in many media, producing mostly paintings and drawings but also stone carvings, sculptures, prints, and even masks and kites. He was a painter of expressionist style, creating carnivalesque worlds that were full of raw energy.
Although Cedric’s pictures were shown at the Royal Academy in London in 1986 and 1987, he had little interest in becoming part of the commercial art world, and apart from occasional exhibitions in his home domain of Gloucestershire (including at the Gloucester Guildhall in the 2000s), he rarely if ever exhibited outside the county.
