Roger Cecil

Roger Cecil (18 July 1942 – 22 February 2015) was a Welsh painter and mixed media artist.

Life as an artist Cecil was born in Abertillery, and studied at Newport College of Art (formerly University of Wales, Newport and now the University of South Wales) and St Martin's School of Art. In 1964 he won the David Murray Landscape Award from the Royal Academy, and started a course at the Royal College of Art, but soon gave it up and took up manual work in mines and building sites. He later spent some time teaching in Ebbw Vale. He was only persuaded by friends to start exhibiting his work in 1987, and was not affiliated to any artistic group or movement. From the late 1980s, his works were widely exhibited in Wales and elsewhere.

At his inquest on 2 March 2015, Gwent Police said that they had found Cecil's body in the field after a call from a member of the public. Preliminary investigations indicated that he had died from hypothermia. The coroner adjourned the inquest for three months, for further investigations to be completed.