Alexander Weatherson was born at Ratcher Hill, Nottinghamshire, studied painting at the Royal Academy Schools in London and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of London University. His first exhibition was at Gallery One in London in 1956 with major solo exhibitions of paintings and collages at that Gallery in 1958 and 1961. He showed in the Carnegie International Exhibitions at Pittsburgh in 1958 and 1961, his painting frequently reflected the musical imagery that accompanied a parallel career as musicologist. He took part in the ‘Arts Council as Patron’ exhibition in 1962; in ‘British Painting in the Sixties’ at the Tate and Whitechapel Galleries in 1963; exhibited at the Galleria Milano 1966; in the Premio Lissone in 1967; and in ‘Arts Spectrum’ at the Alexandra Palace, London in 1971. His collages feature in ‘Contemporary British Art’ by Herbert Read and his objects in “Art in Britain 1960/70’ by Edward Lucie-Smith and Patricia White. From 1968 until 1991 he was Principal Lecturer at Leeds College of Art/Leeds Beckett University. Portrait photographs by Ida Kar and John Couzins are in the National Portrait Gallery.