Ned Hoskins (1939-2021) was a well-known painter, etcher, teacher and exhibitions organiser. He was born in Croydon, Surrey, although as a small child he moved to Yorkshire in 1944. Hoskins studied art at Harrogate Technical School, 1953–55; Harrogate School of Art, 1955–60; and Royal College of Art, London 1961–64. He moved to Sussex in 1964, working as a designer and part-time lecturer at West Sussex College of Art, and in 1968 he went to Buckinghamshire, lecturing at High Wycombe College of Technology and Art. After a fine art fellowship at University of Southampton and lecturing at Buckinghamshire College of Art and Design, and a short time lecturing in California, USA, 1976–77, he founded the Fiveways Artists’ Group in Brighton 1987. By 1992 he had retired in order to paint full-time and he later participated in numerous group shows and had many solo exhibitions including London and Southampton Universities; Gardner Art Centre, Brighton; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; and Rottingdean Grange Gallery, East Sussex.