The Bradford district of West Yorkshire has been, and continues to be, the home and inspiration for professional visual artists. This website celebrates the diversity of artistic talent in the area, past and present.
The city, towns, countryside and people of the district continue to provide inspiration to local artists

The life and work of Bradford District artists, past and present.

This non-commercial website is an illustrated guide to professional artists past and present who were born, or have made their home, in what is now known as the Bradford Metropolitan District – including David Hockney.

The aim of this guide is to collate information about local professional artists for the benefit of art supporters in the district and elsewhere. (For more information on the background to the site, click on 'Contact & Links', above).

The people included on this site are or have been professional artists, making visual art forms the main focus of their work; more information about inclusion criteria is found here.

If you are a local, or locally born, artist, eligible for inclusion on the site, and would like to be included, please contact the site curator - see 'Contact & Links' above. The biographical summaries and images have been drawn from a range of online and printed sources in the public domain (see ‘Sources’).

Click on any letter in 'Artists' above to begin your search. You can also make a word search, e.g. for an art genre (textiles, jewellery etc) or for a local district, e.g. Ilkley, Keighley

‘Not Just Hockney’ Books

‘Not Just Hockney’ Books
    There are currently eight books in print in the ‘Not Just Hockney‘ series featuring artists from the Bradford district of West Yorkshire.  In...

BURTON, Myriam

BURTON, Myriam
The Bingley painter, Myriam Burton (1907-1997) gained international acclaim for her impressionistic work, including a Silver Medal from the Paris Salon. But success in her own...

EDWARDS, Dudley

EDWARDS, Dudley
  The artist, Dudley Edwards, was born in 1944 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and became a significant figure in the London art scene during the 1960s and beyond. His work over the...