Ron Hitchins died in 2019 aged 98. He was a Chinese Lithuanian East Ender, who worked as a tailor, a coal miner, a flamenco dancer, & an abstract sculptor & ceramicist.

His estate is selling off the contents of his house in Hackney - the photos of which are completely divine.
Ron Hitchins died in 2019 aged 98. He was a Chinese Lithuanian East Ender, who worked as a tailor, a coal miner, a flamenco dancer, & an abstract sculptor & ceramicist.His estate is selling off the contents of his house in Hackney - the photos of which are completely divine.
Ron Hitchins died in 2019 aged 98. He was a Chinese Lithuanian East Ender, who worked as a tailor, a coal miner, a flamenco dancer, & an abstract sculptor & ceramicist.His estate is selling off the contents of his house in Hackney - the photos of which are completely divine.
Ron Hitchins died in 2019 aged 98. He was a Chinese Lithuanian East Ender, who worked as a tailor, a coal miner, a flamenco dancer, & an abstract sculptor & ceramicist.His estate is selling off the contents of his house in Hackney - the photos of which are completely divine.
Ron Hitchins died in 2019 aged 98. He was a Chinese Lithuanian East Ender, who worked as a tailor, a coal miner, a flamenco dancer, & an abstract sculptor & ceramicist.His estate is selling off the contents of his house in Hackney - the photos of which are completely divine.
I am particularly taken by his magnificent four poster bed created out of 3,582 biscuit fired ceramic tiles.
Here he is posing with his statue outside Stamford Hill library. What a dude.
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