Maud Raphael Jones (1863 – 1935) was a Bradford-born painter of landscape and rustic scenes, usually in watercolour. Although his first name appears feminine, his birth details give his sex as male. In 2008, Maud’s grandson, Peter Jones, told a local journalist that Maud’s father had given him a girl’s…
Fred Jones (1891-1956) painter, etcher and teacher was born in Bradford. Fred was the son of artist, Maud Raphael Jones and the husband of Ethel Mary Kitson, a fellow Bradford-born artist, whom he married in 1925. He studied at Bradford College of Art, 1915 -16, and part-time at Leeds College of…
Frank Johnson (1917 – 1998) was born in Leicester but was a tutor at Bradford Art College from 1952 – 1980 and painted realistic street and social scenes of a rapidly changing Bradford. He lived at St. Mary’s Road, Manningham, Bradford. He worked as a commercial artist in Leicester but after…
Annie Hugill (1870-1945) water-colour artist and plaster model-maker, was born in Keighley, the daughter of an accountant. She specialised in painting moorland scenes and seascapes and lived at Briar Bank, Highfield Lane, Keighley. She is known to have studied at Leeds College of Art (circa 1900-2 ) and…
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 the most influential artist of all time. The Bradford-born, stained glass artist and designer, Jude Tarrant, lived close to David Hockney and has a formative…
Jack Hellewell (1920-2000) was born in Bradford. He served with the RAF in North Africa and Italy the Second World War and the sights and landscape of the time and region impacted on his later work. After the war he studied commercial art at Bradford School of Art and…
Born 1907 at Marsden, near Huddersfield, Hildred (Harry) Harpin, was a watercolour painter, teacher, writer and later, a Catholic priest. His father, Edgar Harpin, was also an amateur painter. Hildred lived at Swartha, near Silsden, from the late 1930s until 1957 and is still remembered in the district. Image: Gable end,…
Alan Gummerson, painter/artist, printmaker, sculptor (1928 – 2020) was born at Bradford Moor. He studied art at Bradford Art College from 1945-47 and taught at Leeds Polytechnic and Leeds College of Art from 1957 until 1984, when he took early retirement. After retirement he concentrated on his own…
Geoffrey Greetham (1934-1992 ), sculptor, was born in Keighley and studied at Keighley School of Art and Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts in the late 1950s. Between the years 1962-65 he was an assistant to Henry Moore and 1965-67 and assisted Moore in 1965 with the Reclining Figure sculpture…
David Greenwood is a professional artist specialising in work with pastels in an impressionistic style. He was born in Ilkley and attended Bradford and Sunderland Colleges of Art between 1963-67, then Bradford University, graduating in 1983 with a degree in Human Studies. David’s first solo exhibition was at the Hunter…
