John Drummond

John Drummond was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1920. He served in India with the RAF during WWII. On his return he studied Printed Textiles under Dora Batty at Central School of Arts & Crafts from 1947, gaining a National Diploma in Design in 1949. He then spent a year studying n Italy, France and Sicily on a Royal Society of Arts Bursary.

He was awarded an Honorary Diploma from the Royal College of Art in 1964.

From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s he established a studio workshop producing designs for Cole's Wallpapers, Sanderson's, Heather Mills, Worth and Hull Traders. He was design consultant for Rivington Carpets and Gaydon tableware. In the USA he designed for Katzenbach and Warren, Philip Graf, Louis W Bowen and Cabin Craft.

He designed, painted and screen printed silk panels, murals and decorative glass panels for various institutions, including the Royal Garden Hotel and Vickers Mill Bank Tower in London, the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh, the Civic Centre at Rochester, Kent and Pilkington Glass Factory at St Helen's.

During this period he was part-time tutor at the Central School, Hammersmith Art School, St Martin's School of Art and he was senior tutor at the Royal College of Art.
He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1968.

John Drummond kept painting and exhibiting in Britain and the USA until his death in 2019