Watercolour artist, Barry Langroyd Hanson(1939 – 2021), self-described as ‘Bradford’s other artist’, lived for much of his life in the Bradford district. His subjects were wide, including Bradford city centre and the Yorkshire countryside scenes (see example below), as well as still life, wild life, and scenes from the…
Painter, Terry Burke (1927-2018) was born in Bradford. He studied at Bradford College, then at the Leeds College of Art. After Leeds College he was conscripted into the Army Medical Corps for his National Service. After his Army discharge Terry qualified as an art teacher and started teaching at Dagenham, East London,…
Jane Gerwitz creates artwork on a wide range of subjects from the serious to the wacky. Born and brought up in London, she moved to the Bradford area in 1976 after studying painting and sculpture at teacher training college in Newcastle. She completed an art foundation course at Bradford College…
Wilfrid Burnet Tapp (1880 -1976), artist and teacher, was born and lived at Thornton near Bradford. His father, Caleb, was the headmaster of the local school and a Methodist preacher. His mother, Frances, encouraged Wilfrid’s early drawing ability, and he would often go on solitary walks onto the nearby Ogden Moors with his sketchbook.…
Artist, Cath (Catherine) Riley, was born 1952 in Keighley. She gained a first class honours degree in embroidery and a MA in fine art from Manchester Polytechnic and quickly gained attention for her three-dimensional art work. In 1979, for example, George Melly purchased her mixed media collage, ‘The lady with the hat’, for the Arts Council Collection, and other pieces have been acquired by Granada…
George Percival Gaskell, painter and etcher, was born 1868 in Shipley. He was educated at the Leys School, Cambridge and studied art at the Royal College of Art, London, then in Paris and Italy. After graduation, Gaskell became a University Extension lecturer at Oxford, Cambridge and London on the history of art and…
The sculptor, painter, and teacher, Harry Everington, was born 1929 near Keighley. He was the co-founder of the Frink School of Sculpture at Stoke-on-Trent. After he died in 2000 an obituary in ‘The Telegraph’ noted that he was: “An enthusiastic, determined man with an indomitable spirit, [who] spent much of his career…
In addition to his own work, Shipley artist, Tim Curtis, has a particular interest in community art projects helping people to create large scale art works, including collage and wall murals. His own mixed media work includes people and life drawing, landscape paintings and drawings, and etching and printmaking. He studied for a degree…
Jewellery designer/maker, Sara Bukumunhe was born in Uganda in the early 70s and moved to Britain, aged nine, settling eventually in the Bradford area, where she now has her home and workshop. In her late twenties she began to learn jewellery making via evening classes at Bradford College. This decided her future…
William Joseph Boyes, believed born in 1847, was a watercolour painter who lived in the Bradford area all his life. He was a founder and active Council member of the Yorkshire Union of Artists (YUA) and taught art at a range of local institutions, including Bradford Technical College, the Bradford Church Institute, Batley Grammar School and…
