Eric Malthouse was born in Erdington, Birmingham on the 20 August 1914. After going to King Edward V1 school at Aston he studied at Birmingham College of Arts & Crafts (1931-37). He was the Art Master at Salt High Schools at Saltaire, Shipley, Yorkshire (1938-39) before spending two years in the Royal Armoured Corps (1940-42).

Then he was appointed Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer at Cardiff College of Art (1944-73). He was a founder member of the "South Wales Group" (1949) and of the "56 Group Wales" (1956-70).

Eric Malthouse studied at the College of Art Birmingham. His important early work was Surrealist and his connection with Cornwall dates from the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 when he was produci...