page_title: Walter Hoyle
section_title: Early life and training
hierarchical_section_title: Walter Hoyle / Early life and training
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of a Copy of the limited edition book 'To Sicily with Edward Bawden' by Walter Hoyle at the Fry Art Gallery
context_page_description: Walter Hoyle was an English artist, known for his prints, watercolours and illustration. He was a central figure in the Great Bardfield group of artists and a close associate of Edward Bawden. He taught at the Central School, London, and, for twenty years, at the Cambridge School of Art.
  Walter Hoyle was youngest of four. He is the uncle to Susan Christine Hoyle and Great Uncle to Sally Christine Ward. Sally is now living in portslade East Sussex and Susan is now living in Spain.
context_section_description: Walter Hoyle was born in Rishton, Lancashire in 1922.  He studied at Beckenham School of Art from 1938 and took up a place at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in 1940.  His studies were interrupted by war service as an army medical orderly from 1942. Following a prolonged demobilisation, he returned to the RCA in 1947.
  In 1949, Hoyle took up a funded place to study mosaics at the Byzantine Institute of America in Istanbul, prompting an interest in Byzantine colour and design.  On returning to the RCA for a post-graduate year, Hoyle met Edward Bawden who became a friend and major influence.
caption: Hoyle's 'To Sicily with Edward Bawden' at the Fry Art Gallery
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