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He spent a year living in a remote cottage near Lanreath in Cornwall, supporting his young family by teaching, before being offered studio space on the Barbican in Plymouth by local artist John Nash.

The artist's home and studios once more became a magnet for vagrants and street alcoholics, who then sat for paintings.

Their numbers swelled and Lenkiewicz was forced to commandeer derelict warehouses in the city to house the ' dossers '.

One of these warehouses also served as a studio and in 1973 became the exhibition space for the Vagrancy Project.