My brother-in-law, Ralph Kiggell, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 62, was an artist whose main medium was water-based woodblock print (mokuhanga). Always developing new ideas and projects, he also created large papercuts and collages, illustrated compilations of writings and poetry, and produced artist’s books, murals and mosaic installations.
Ralph was born in Ndola, Zambia, to English parents, John, a probation officer, and Phyl (nee Thompson), an artist and Slade graduate. The family moved back to the UK in 1965 and Ralph went on to attend a state boarding school, Lord Williams’s in Thame, Oxfordshire. After studying Chinese language and culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Ralph lived in Kunming, China, and Hong Kong, where he worked as an editor.
