Painter, printmaker and teacher who also worked as John Luce Lockett, born and lived in Northampton. He studied at the local School of Art and Byam Shaw School of Drawing. Lockett was a representational artist who also taught life drawing and artistic anatomy and from 1986 with his wife ran a private studio gallery, holding regular spring and Christmas shows. He showed with RP and was a council member of the Northampton Town and County Art Society. Solo shows included Four Seasons Gallery, Northampton, 1977; Hurlingham Gallery, 1989; and The City Gallery, Leicester, 1992. In 2003, Karen Taylor Contemporary Art Gallery, St Margaret’s, Twickenham, showed Lockett’s work. His exhibition, The Bohemians, was at The McNeill Gallery, Radlett, in 2005.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)