Michael Ayrton

Michael Ayrton (1921-1975), was a British artist and writer, known as a painter, printmaker and sculptor, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. He was a stage and costume designer, working with John Minton on the 1942 John Gielgud production of Macbeth from age 19; and a book designer and illustrator, for Wyndham Lewis's The Human Age trilogy and William Golding. He also collaborated with Constant Lambert.

References

• Justine Hopkins (1994) Michael Ayrton - a Biography
• Jacob E. Nyenhuis (2003) Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker