Bradford based artist, Ruth Fettis, works in a variety of medium, including printmaking, collage, drawing, painting, illustration and mural painting. She regularly leads workshops in linocutting and printmaking at galleries and with schools. Ruth has exhibited her work across the North of England and overseas, including at…
The award-winning painter, stained glass and mural artist, Graeme Willson (1951-2018) was born in North Yorkshire and lived the greater part of his life in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Graeme Willson graduated from Reading University in 1973 with a degree in Fine Art and worked as a full-time lecturer at the North…
Herbert Whone (1925 – 2011) Musician, self-taught painter, photographer, author, and teacher, was born in Bingley into an aspiring and cultured working-class family. Herbert’s grandfather had been a chapel organist and from an early age his parents, also both interested in music, encouraged Herbert’s talent with the violin. At the…
Joseph West (1881 – 1958) painted watercolour land and seascape scenes, particularly of the Norfolk Broads, the Yorkshire Dales, and Yorkshire coast, that sold well in Britain and the USA. He was also well-regarded for his animal paintings, particularly equine and cattle subjects. He was born, 27 April 1881, the son of a…
John Dobby Walker (1863-1925) was a painter born in Bradford who started his working career as a coach trimmer and painter at Sheethams, a local coach building firm. His first piece of art work was painting a crest on a carriage. He studied painting at the Bradford Church Institute and, following…
1879-1955. Edward Walker, landscape painter and etcher, was born in Bradford; he was the brother of John Doddy Walker. Edward studied at Bradford School of Art, 1895-1900 and the Royal College of Art, 1900-06. Between 1906 and 1908 he was Head of the Design Department at Sheffield Technical School of…
Designer, painter, and teacher, Dorothy Wade, (1913 -2009) grew up in Silsden at Cragg House and farm. The farm is on the edge of Ilkley Moor, overlooking the Aire Valley (see below) and Dorothy was the daughter of a poultry farmer, Thomas E. Wade, and mother, Annie. Dorothy…
Michael Vaughan, painter and printmaker, was born in 1938 at Shipley. He studied at Bradford College of Art, 1956-60, where his art peers in London at that time included David Hockney, Norman Stevens, John Loker, Peter Kaye and David Oxtoby – collectively known as ‘The Bradford Mafia’ – a term coined by the…
John Ridgill Trout (1877 – 1961) was a landscape and still-life painter, wood and metal worker, particularly in fine jewellery and church ornaments. He lived all his life in Manningham, Bradford, studied art at the Bradford Regional Art School, and taught art in local schools. He is known to have…
Karl Torok, painter (1950 – 2015), was born in Bradford of Hungarian parentage; he studied printmaking at Bradford College of Art, 1968-72. His first solo exhibition was held at New Lane Gallery, Bradford in 1973. He became part of the Yorkshire based group, the ‘New Arcadians’ and in 1978 and…
