Peter Green, who has died aged 89, was a printmaker and pioneer of design education. Despite leaving school aged 15 without any formal qualifications, Peter received recognition across two distinguished careers, being elected as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1958 and appointed OBE for services to art and art education in 1988.
Peter joined the army printing unit during his national service in 1953. There he learned the skills of his trade alongside colleagues who had mostly undergone seven-year apprenticeships. At the end of the second world war he enrolled at Brighton College of Art, where he completed his art teacher’s certificate. From 1957, he worked at Ockendon Courts secondary school in Essex, while living in Upminster, east London, before being appointed senior lecturer at Hornsey College of Art in north London, which in 1972 became part of Middlesex Polytechnic (now Middlesex University London).
