Walter Hoyle

[2] In 1950, Bawden asked Hoyle, along with Sheila Robinson, to help with the completion of his Country Life mural for the Lion and Unicorn pavilion at the Festival of Britain.

[4] After his retirement, Hoyle wrote a memoir of this trip, To Sicily with Edward Bawden, which was published as an illustrated limited edition in 1998.

He retired from teaching in 1984 and that year moved to Hastings, Sussex, making frequent trips to Dieppe, France, where he owned a flat.

[5] His later prints combined figuration and an architectural sense of design with experimentation in printmaking processes including linocut, etching and aquatint.

[5] He received a number of mural commissions, including restoring the painted dome of the Wren church St Mary Abchurch in London.

[13] He also produced a number of wallpaper designs, including one he named Bardfield,[14] for Wall Paper Manufacturers Ltd, Sanderson's and Coles.

[19] A significant holding which includes paintings, prints and related objects is in the collection of the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden.