“I have seen a rapid development in my painting since living full time in Bali, Indonesia.” “Mark making has always been very important in my work. I like to tell the ‘story’ of how the painting has evolved by purposefully showing remnants of each layer of paint, each surface of…
Sue Atkinson (1949-2021) was born in Bradford, the daughter of a wool merchant, and built a following for her town and seascape paintings of ordinary people going about their lives. She once said of this: Painting gives me the opportunity to express my enthusiasm for nature through landscapes, and…
John Wilson Anderson (1798 – 1851) was born in Halifax, but his family moved to Bingley when he was a child. John – as was common then among working class young men with artistic talent – was apprenticed as a painter and decorator. When John had served his apprenticeship, he set up his own painting and…
