Fran Jordan (1960-2008), was born in Cheshire, but moved to Ilkley in the 1980s, where she became a successful multi-media artist and business-woman with a particular talent for textile and jewellery design. She graduated in 1981 with a degree in English and Art from Exeter University before training as a teacher at…
Multi-media artist, Patricia Calver, has had a 20+ year working association with the South Square Arts Centre in Thornton, including as a gallery curator. Her work spans drawing, painting, printmaking, 3D and sculpture and she has a studio in the basement at South Square. Patricia studied at Bradford College School…
The oil painting, titled ‘Tell Your Fortune, Lady’, (above), and now in the Bradford Museums Service collection, was one of a series of paintings of gypsies at Epsom and Ascot race courses by the artist, Dame Laura Knight (1871 – 1970), created over a ten year period in the 1930s. The…
The self-portrait of local artist, William Shackleton, 54 x 40 cm in size, is part of the Bradford Museums and Galleries permanent collection. William Shackleton was the son of a prosperous Bradford paper manufacturer and merchant. He was educated at the local Grammar School, studied art at Bradford Technical…
‘The Emigrant Ship’, was painted in the 1880s by the Yorkshire artist, Charles Joseph Staniland, and is part of the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries, and is usually on display at Cartwright Hall, Bradford. It is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 104 x 176 cm, and is popular…
The painting, ‘Signing the Marriage Register’, painted around 1895 by James Charles, is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums & Galleries Service, and is currently on display at Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford. It is a good example of 19th century genre paintings. This is a large canvas, 238.5 x 184…
The painting, ‘The Conchie’, by the painter, Arthur Gay (1901 – 1958), was first exhibited in 1931 to a sympathetic public reception. A decade earlier this would not have been the case. Background In 1916, with the Great War raging unabated and the number of volunteers drying-up, the British Government introduced…
Lisa Vallo is a Bingley-based artist who paints bespoke contemporary abstract work. A professional artist since 2003, Lisa designs interior art panels and murals, including diptych work, on a one-off commission or sale basis. She uses a range of art materials to suit the assignment and her designs are often influenced by her previous overseas residence…
