Guy Lindsay Roddon (1919-2006) was a painter of landscapes, interiors, portraits and figure subjects mainly in oils and pastel. He was born in London and studied at Goldsmiths College of Art 1937-39 and then at the Byam Shaw School of Art 1939-40. After war service he taught at Goldsmiths and later at the Brighton College of Art. In 1949 he shared a studio in Chelsea with his friend Henry Lamb RA and later had a studio in Tarrant Street, Arundel in West Sussex. Guy Roddon exhibited at the Royal Academy, London Group and other leading galleries, and wrote books on technique for artists. He worked extensively abroad, including in America, North Africa and Europe, but was drawn most of all to France for his subject matter, and lived in Menton for five years in the 1990s. In 1998 he returned to London.