Chrome Barrett was a lecturer, artist and engineer who was the principal lecturer at the North London Polytechnic where he lectured on the history and technology of painting. As an artist he focused primarily on abstract works  but also painted a number of landscapes and seascapes. Barratt was President of the Royal Institute of Royal painters, a member of the royal society of British artists and also showed at the Royal Academy and a number of international galleries.

A wonderfully brief and comical review of one painting by Barratt  in the Royal Academy show of 1958 puts into perspective the reticence many had towards Abstraction at that time, to view the video please copy and paste  the link below:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svzpiwwEd-E