The life and work of Bradford District artists, past and present.
This non-commercial website is an illustrated guide to professional visual & 3D artists past and present who were born, or have made their home, in what is now known as the Bradford Metropolitan District – including the late, great, 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
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
There are currently ten books in print in the ‘Not Just Hockney‘ series featuring artists from the Bradford district of West Yorkshire. A...
HOCKNEY, David
David Hockney (1937-2026) was Bradford’s most famous and celebrated visual artist – and one with a worldwide reputation. In 2011, a thousand artists voted Hockney...
Hockney and Bridlington
Between 2005 and 2013 David Hockney was resident in the Yorkshire coastal town of Bridlington. This proved to be a particularly creative period for him....
‘The Road Across the Wolds’
When David Hockney’s Yorkshire landscape paintings were first shown at the Royal Academy in 2012, they attracted mixed reviews. The art critic of The...