Artist, Jane Sedgwick, was born in Burnley, but has lived in the Haworth/Keighley area for over 20 years. She works with a variety of art media, including acrylic, ink, pastel and clay, and her work is often inspired by nature in all its infinite forms. Jane gained…
When David Hockney’s Yorkshire landscape paintings were first shown at the Royal Academy in 2012, they attracted mixed reviews. The art critic of The Economist admired some of the works, but wrote, “Others, I would argue, would not be celebrated at all if they were not by Mr Hockney,…
The largely self-taught artist, Catherine Bartle, retired from the NHS in 2005 to paint professionally under the name, ‘Wilsden Watercolours’. Although painting in watercolour for most of her life, retirement gave Catherine the time and opportunity to try other art mediums, including acrylics. Her work has been exhibited and…
In 2005, the abstract painter, Laimonis Mierins, had a retrospective exhibition of his work at the Riga Gallery, Latvia, his home country. A catalogue was work was published, and in this Laimonis was interviewed by the art critic and writer, John Sheeran. Laimonis spoke about the influences on his art. I…
William Manners (1860-1942) was born in Bradford. He was a self-taught oil and water-colour landscape and rural genre painter. He lived in Bradford and Otley until around 1900, when he moved to the Lake District. He lived then in the Ulverston and Kendal areas, where the surrounding landscape provided inspiration for much of…
Robert Walker, ceramicist, artist and teacher, was born in Bradford in 1960. From an early age he pursued an interest in art and by the age of 15 was already exhibiting his ceramics at the Goosewell gallery in Menston. He sold one of his ceramics sculptures to the mother of David Hockney –…
Angus Rands (1922-1985) was born in Menston, near Ilkley, but lived the latter part of his life in Harrogate. In his forties he quit his sales job to become a full time painter. He specialised in painting town and landscape scenes, particularly of the Yorkshire Dales – to which he had a special…
Simon Sugden, (known as ‘Suggy’) is a self-taught photographer specialising in atmospheric architectural photographs, including of derelict and abandoned buildings. Born in Ilkley, Simon has been interested in photography from an early age, but in 2011 the purchase of a Canon 500D camera launched his freelance professional career. Simon has…
In 1839 [Patrick] Branwell Bronte, brother to the three Bronte sisters, wrote to his friend and fellow artist in Bradford, John Hunter Thompson: Mrs Kirby’s name is an eyesore to me – what does the Woman mean? – How can I come paddling to Bradford with my wallet on my back…
