Samuel Porter Goldsmith (1923 – 1989) graphic designer and illustrator, was born in Bradford. After serving in the Royal Navy during World War II as a telegraphic operator he enrolled at Bradford College of Art and studied commercial art. In 1952 he went to London to work freelance as a decorative…
Gerald French (1927-2001) was a painter of portraits, landscapes and abstracts, mainly self-taught, who studied part-time at Bradford School of Art. He studied alongside David Hockney, who he sketched on a number of occasions. Gerald French was a member of Bradford Art Club. He attended Hanson School in Bradford…
Born in Bingley, Walter Christopher Foster (1885-1929) was one of four children to parents, William, a local printer, and mother, Maria. Walter studied at Bingley Grammar School and then worked as an assistant to Charles Dawson, the art master at Bingley School of Art. He was awarded a…
Jane Fielder trained initially as a teacher, and later studied art, including Textile Design at Bradford & Ilkley Community College. She left teaching in 1999 to concentrate on painting. She was a previous owner of ‘The Bingley Gallery’ at 29a Park Road, Bingley, and her work and that of…
James Robert Granville Exley (1878–1967) was a teacher, painter, etcher and printer. He created artworks of a range of subjects, including landscapes, but was particularly well-regarded for his etchings of poultry, as well as his portraits of influential members of Yorkshire society. He was born in Bradford on the 16th…
Craig Everett, (or Rourke Van Dal) is a self-taught urban artist, who lives at Thackley. He creates pop art, using a range of techniques and experiments with different styles and materials, including waste paper, tins and cans. His his work is often inspired by people and places from his youth on Bradford…
Richard Eurich (1903 – 1992) was one of Bradford’s most successful and well-regarded artists. He was born in Bradford, the son of a Professor of forensic medicine and bacteriologist; his mother was a Yorkshire Quaker. The family moved to Ilkley in 1920. Richard studied art initially at Bradford School of Art…
Painter and illustrator, Pauline Ellinson, was born 1946 in Keighley and educated at Keighley Grammar School. She then studied initially at Bradford Art School, before going on to advanced studies at Leicester and Cambridge, the latter with its prestigious illustration courses. She moved to London in 1967 and began a…
Paula Dunn is a Saltaire-based artist who works in a range of mediums: oil paint, textiles, photography, with an interpretative focus on land and seascapes, and some urban scenes. Her work is often on a large scale. Writing in a 2015 edition of the ‘Saltaire Review’, Paula wrote: I work…
Liza Dracup, is a photographer, born 1968 and resident in Bradford, best known and recognised for her atmospheric landscape and nature photographs. Liza graduated from Napier University, Edinburgh, in 1992 with a BA in Photographic Studies and De Montfort University, Leicester, in 2001 with a MA in Photography. Her…
