Lenk painted a mural of  'local characters' in a pub in Hampstead in 1964 or 5 when he was living in the Belsize park area. Has this work survived? I don't remember the name of the pub but it was on the east side of Haverstock Hill near the top, I think.

I believe that at the time he was keeping himself by giving lessons or seminars at a local art college, don't remember which one. I remember watching him produce a large copy of an Old Master (possibly Rubens' Descent from the Cross) in poster paint on many sheets of sugar paper stuck together, in a short evening's work, for one of these classes and being stunned by his facility and skill (me a twenty year old hippie type except that hippies weren't quite invented then, and still wet behind the ears). I was one of the homeless he took in briefly till I found a  room of my own. It was known he would give you a piece of floor if you needed it. Food was a different matter, being often in short supply. I remember one of his vagrants bringing in a box of (shoplifted) food which was welcomed by the family. I only met him a couple of times after that, but my then partner kept up with him sporadically till his own death in 1976.