The oil painting, ‘Lavender’, painted by the Staffordshire-born artist, Herbert Ashwin Budd, (1881-1950) is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries and can usually be found on the gallery at Cliffe Castle Museum and Gallery at Keighley. It was exhibited by the artist in 1936 and purchased by…
Wharfedale, on the border between West and North Yorkshire, offers painters glorious river and landscape scenes at every bend, and particularly along the upper section of the river from its source at Langstrothdale, downstream to Otley. According to the Victorian art critic, John Ruskin, author of Modern Painters, the famous landscape painter JMW…
“My work to date is mostly focused on the British landscape, both rural and urban. I love creating a simplified representation of the landscape using silhouettes of trees on a skyline, then I add blocks of vibrant colour to bring it to life. Since creating my first landscape design…
Stained glass artist, designer and glass painter, Jude Tarrant (née Lamb), was born in 1957 and grew up in Eccleshill, Bradford, close to the home of David Hockney. Jude studied Politics at the University of Portsmouth, graduating with honours in 1978. She has written of this: I loved drawing and craft work…
Terry Greene is a painter living and working at Cross Roads, near Keighley. He studied at Bradford College, School of Art, graduating in 1988 with a BA in Art & Design, with a focus on fine art in his final year. He later gained a Masters degree in Art Theory…
Menston based graphic designer, photographer and artist, Justin Leeming, has over 30 years experience of working in the design and print industry. Originally from Accrington in Lancashire, Justin did a Fine Art degree in Leicester specialising in painting and print-making in the early 1990s. Justin has lived in Wharfedale since the millennium.…
Artist, Deborah Rehmat, has lived in Keighley for over 10 years. During 40 years of professional work as an artist, she drew from a wide range of visual art media, including graphic design and illustration, painting, photography, fashion and accessory design, jewellery making, and textile art (see example above). She says of…
