My husband, Keith Hill, who has died aged 87, was an accomplished “outsider artist”, a self-taught sculptor in wood and stone whose work was shown in many galleries in the UK and abroad. He was also a community worker and local politician, an opera lover, a francophile and a flat-racing aficionado. Keith was a risk-taker. When he wanted to do something, he went ahead, and if it worked out, that was fine; and if it didn’t he might try something else.
Keith was born in Chingford, Essex, the son of Henry Hill, a policeman, and Gladys (nee Hunter), a housewife. He left secondary modern school in Walthamstow, east London, at 15.
