"Norman Blamey:Painter who caught the spirit of Christian worship on canvas," Obituary by Andrew Wilton, The Guardian, newspaper, January 24, 2000.

The painter Norman Blamey, who has died aged 85, was a consummate draughtsman specialising in contemplative domestic subjects and episodes from the liturgy of the Anglo-Catholic church. His paintings have only recently been given due recognition, for both his subject and his style were unusual, but he brought to his work an intensity that expresses not only the spirituality of high Anglicans but of all who value ritual.

The setting of Blamey's religious pieces was usually Old St Pancras church, London, where he worshipped all his life, and his pictures sometimes show him as...