On the 9th January, 1911, the Saltaire artist, William Capling Stevens, was found dead in the kitchen of his house in Albert Terrace, Saltaire. He was 39 years old and had been dead for over 3 weeks. Stevens was described at the time as both ‘reclusive’ and ‘eccentric’. He rarely spoke to his neighbours…
Silk-screen print artist, Sarah Harris, from Shipley, studied initially at Bradford College on an Art Foundation Course (2001-2), before completing an honours degree in Fashion Design at De Montfort University (2002-5). After a period of employment in retail and marketing, Sarah attended an evening class at Leeds College of Art…
Dionne (Dee) Hood – a “lover of art, words and many sorts of creative nonsense” – is a mixed media artist and Development Officer for Bradford Libraries, encouraging people to use libraries in a range of creative ways, including using libraries as a space for displaying and responding to art. Her own…
Haworth artist, Bill Parker, has worked as a professional artist, art tutor, and art college lecturer for over 30 years, including teaching in London and Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded a BA in Fine Art (painting) from Wolverhampton University in 1975. Later he was awarded a…
The refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 onward is is a timeless reflection of the impact of war on ordinary people. In 1914 Europe faced a similar crisis when thousands of Belgium citizens were uprooted when their homes were razed to the ground in the early stages of the First World War.…
John Frederic Greenwood (1885-1954) watercolour artist, wood engraver and printmaker, was born in Rochdale, but studied between 1904-8 at Shipley School of Art and Bradford School of Art, then at the Royal College of Art (RCA), 1908-11. He lived for most of his life at Ilkley and died there. He is best remembered for his…
Darren Baker has had his work widely exhibited and is particularly noted for his portraits of the famous, including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, the Bahrain Royal Family and Tony Blair, and a range of sporting champions. He was official artist to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, a Fine Art Trade Guild Award Winner…
Amy and Ben Bucki are husband and wife professional photographers and artists and the founders in 2009 of ‘Ribbon Art and Photography’, based in the Keighley area. In addition to commissioned commercial photography, they are engaged collobaratively or respectively in photography as an art form or social document and in the creation of sculptural, art and craft projects. They…
