Michael Ayrton

1921-1975

A painter, sculptor, designer and illustrator, Ayrton studied at Albertina in Vienna 1935, Heatherley’s and St John’s Wood Schools of Art. Influenced by Graham Sutherland and Henry Moore, he practiced commercial art. Ayrton shared a studio with John Minton in Paris in 1939 and held an exhibition with him at the Leicester Galleries in 1942.[…]