Bob Crossley (30 August 1912 – 19 September 2010) was an abstract artist who lived in Cornwall, England from 1959.

[1][2][3][4] He was born in Northwich, Cheshire but grew up in Rochdale, the Lancashire town where his father, an engine fitter, worked.

He left school at 14 and spent the 1930s working as a coach painter and signwriter and served in the RAF during the Second World War.

LS Lowry bought a painting from his first major London show at the Reid Gallery in 1960.

[5] He moved to Cornwall in 1959[6] and alternated between painting and running a beachside shop in St Ives.