Early Life
Born in Harwich, Essex, he trained at Colchester School of Art in Colchester and Central St Martins College in London. He worked in a stained glass studio and worked as a lecturer.
It was while he was teaching at the Central School of Art (later Central St Martins College) that Oliver Postgate came looking for, as Firmin puts it: "…someone to illustrate a television story – someone who was hard up and would do a lot of drawing for very little money". They immediately 'clicked' and went on, in due course, to form Smallfilms.
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