Painter who was born at Dartford, Kent. Pilcher attended Sidcup School of Art, before going to the Royal College of Art, 1950-53 where his teachers included Ruskin Spear, Carel Weight and John Minton. Terry Pilcher as he is known, has been a teacher of art in secondary education and only recently returned to full-time painting after an absence of 25 years. He has exhibited his work at the Royal Academy, RWA, New English Art Club and various Young Contemporaries exhibitions. He also designed and executed murals based on Elizabethan themes at the Mermaid Inn, Rye, Sussex. He works in both oil and watercolour, plein-air from the landscape of Exmoor and Cornwall. Terry Pilcher lived and worked in West Somerset for the last 25 years of his life.