Middleditch was a painter,
draughtsman and
printmaker. He drew his motifs from the natural world, including grasses, water, feathers, opening petals and reflections. Gradually shifting observed patterns became fleeting abstracted movements, often caught from water currents and light effects. His later work became much more abstracted, concerned with repeating patterns as if seen from above and filling the picture-frame; drawing influence from
kilims and
Persian carpets. Middleditch died in 1987 in Chelmsford, Essex. ==References==