Dr. Claire Wellesley-Smith is a textile artist living and working in the Bradford area. Claire completed her AHRC funded doctoral research project in Geography at the Open University having previously completed a Masters in Visual Arts at Bradford School of Art and a BA in Politics at Newcastle…
Juliet and Jamie Gutch are a husband and wife artistic partnership who live in Ilkley and design and make mobile sculptures. Their current and past work includes a reflection on the sounds and shapes of nature and the impact of the local Yorkshire landscape. As they explain on their website (2015):…
Linda Dewart is a textile and mixed media artist based in Ilkley. Her work mainly incorporates paint with stitch, with the subject and desired result deciding the techniques and materials used, which can include clay, wire, digital print or photographic elements, and digitised embroidery. The focus of Linda’s work…
Brian Hindmarch, artist, printmaker, designer and teacher, has a studio in Ilkley and was a lecturer in Graphic Design at Bradford College, School of Art, for over 20 years, from 1992-2013. He applies a wide range of graphic design techniques and processes, including photography, etching, letterpress, lithography, screenprint and relief…
Clare Caulfield is a Bingley based artist and printmaker. She completed an art foundation course at Bradford College, 1996/7, then studied Surface Pattern Design from Staffordshire University, graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in 2000. Clare works with a variety of media, including pen, watercolour, acrylic, pencil…
Joseph Hermon (often spelt ‘Herman’) Cawthra (1886–1971) was a sculptor, born at Wilmer Road, Shipley. His father, Silas Cawthra, was in the wool trade and intended for Hermon to follow in his footsteps. However, his mother encouraged his drawing and painting, and after his day school, at Belle Vue Boy’s Secondary, Hermon…
Bradford Textile artist and visual storyteller, Naseem Darbey, uses a sewing machine to create 3D artwork representing or responding to a particular theme, situation, human experience, or fable. She works directly from a model using machine stitch, instead of drawing, to create 2D images, which are then built into 3D narrative sculptures. More…
James Arundel (1875 – 1960) was born in Bradford. In a long and adventurous life he was a builder, poet, broadcaster – and professional artist. In his teens, he and a friend ran away from their homes to America, both working their passages on cargo boats. They got as…
With his shock of white hair and trade-mark bow tie, James Hardaker (1901 – 1991), was a familiar figure in Bingley, his adoptive town. For many years he ran an artist’s shop in Myrtle Place, then later worked from a studio in Park Road. He was born in Bradford,…
