Frederick Cuming

He was awarded the Abbey Minor Travelling Scholarship to visit Italy.

In 1957 his oil painting of Lewisham Road was included as one of the 'Young Artists of Promise' in Jack Beddington's book.

His art has an impressionist quality which captures "the fleeting impressions of his surroundings".

The powerful contrast to his home in London created an enduring love for it.

[7] In a review for the BBC, Andrew Walker said: Fred Cuming's haunting, vaguely Turneresque, painting, Ferry to Polrwen, combines great subtlety, especially in his skilful representation of a lowering sky, with an end-of-era feel, strongly redolent of Turner's own masterpiece, the Fighting Temeraire.