My father, Mike Cumiskey, was an artist who took commissions and staged exhibitions at the same time as pursuing a more or less full-time career as an art teacher and, latterly, headteacher.
Across his working life Mike, who has died aged 83, held exhibitions at venues such as the Studio Club, the Bluecoat (Liverpool), Uxbridge civic centre, the National Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago and in Stern (Germany), Manchester and Edinburgh.
