Percy Monkman, (1892 – 1986), was a prolific watercolour artist who painted predominantly Dales and Pennine landscapes, especially Wharfedale and the Bronte country, and also urban scenes around Bradford. He also painted in oils and gouache. Percy was born and lived in Bradford until he retired in 1952, aged 60. He…
Abstract painter, Laimonis Mierins (or Lem to his students) was born Latvia in 1929 and came to England in 1947 as a political refugee and settled in Shipley. He died in 2011. When he first came to England he worked in agriculture, and then in local textile industries and attended evening…
Stephen McNulty, abstract painter, printmaker, teacher, was born in Bradford in 1950. He attended Bradford College of Art, 1968-70 and continued his studies at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, 1973-76, then at the Royal College of Art, London until 1979. He was print workshop organiser at the Sunderland Arts Centre,…
Frank Bateson Mason (1910 – 1977) was born in Thackley, Bradford, and studied under Henry Butler at Bradford College of Art, 1927-32 and then, via a scholarship, at the Royal College of Art (RCA), 1932-5. Mason’s work was singled out by William Rothenstein, a former principal of the RCA, when he paid…
Born 1959, Mick Manning is an artist, writer and illustrator who grew up and went to school in Haworth and Keighley. His father was Charles Manning, a local teacher and freelance artist. In 1978 he attended the Foundation Course in Art and Design at Bradford College before completing a…
Robert Henry Lee (1915-2007) was an artist-craftsman who worked in two and three dimensions, including sculpture, painting, collage, and wooden-framed structures, or ‘assemblages’, containing things he had made or found. His subject ranged was wide, spanning landscape, still-life, abstract, religious subjects, and portraits. He was born in Bingley…
Award-winning ceramicist, Anna Lambert, was born 1957 in London, but has lived in the Keighley area since the late 1980s and shares a studio, ‘Junction Worksop’, at Cross Hills with her painter husband, David Thomas. She makes slab-built earthenware ceramics with painted slips. Ideas reflect an interest in place, exploring narratives relating to…
Hannah Lamb, born 1978 is an artist, textile designer and lecturer; she lives near Bingley and has a studio and gallery of her work at The Butterfly Rooms at Saltaire. After completing a Foundation Art course in Buckinghamshire, Hannah gained a first class honours degree in Embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan…
Arthur Kitching (1912-1981), figurative and abstract painter and writer, was born in Sheffield. At 16, after matriculation from school, he was employed in a steelworks as a clerk. He studied engineering at evening class, but was continually drawn to art and writing. During 1934, he studied art for five evenings a…
Alex Keighley (1861 – 1947) the son of Joseph Keighley, a wealthy worsted manufacturer, was a pioneer in the pictorial movement in photography. He was born at Flosh House, Spring Gardens Lane in the town that carried his name, and the family later moved to Steeton High Hall, near Keighley in…
