The award-winning photographer, John Myers, was born in Bradford in 1944. His work has, over many years, documented the lives of British people, the houses they occupied, and urban spaces around them. His work captures a sense of how ordinary lives were enacted and presented in the recent past. John Myer’s work has been widely shown across the UK and…
Kate Bowles is an Ilkley based book-binder and artist who uses recycled fabrics, leather, papers, and other vintage haberdashery ephemera, to create original hand-sewn notebooks and journals. The books she designs are both functional and decorative. She has written: “I create books that are to be filled by other people, so the creative…
The printmaker, Mike Smith, is originally from Liverpool, but has lived in Yorkshire for many years, and now resides in Addingham. He works mainly through the medium of reduction lino printing, and his subjects are predominantly drawn from his observations of wildlife, people and places. He…
Ilkley artist, Helen Brayshaw, works predominantly in oil paint and has a particular interest in still life; fruit is a recurring theme, although she also paints other subjects, including landscape and abstracts. One of her paintings, ‘Halved Acocado’ (see image below) was bought by the Duchess of Cornwall…
The artist, Peter Brook (1927- 2009), is usually associated with his oil paintings of Pennine landscape and architecture. But, his oil painting, ‘Staithes’, in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries, and displayed at Cliffe Castle, Keighley, is an exception to this. It catches the lop-sided jumble of buildings in…
Phil Jackson is a professional photographer working in documentary, portraiture and reportage. His clients range from local charities and the voluntary sector to press and organisations operating nationally. He says of his work: I am photographer interested particularly in people. My projects are centred around culture, habits and interaction.…
