Month: January 2020

  Tony Jarvis (1946 -2024) was a talented painter and cabinet maker.  He was born in South London and attended St Olave’s Grammar School for Boys.  He had showed an aptitude for art from an early age so after leaving school had studied at Goldsmiths College, London, graduating in 1969…

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 (Sketch of William Charles Rushton, from the book, The Poets of Keighley, Bingley, Haworth & District , see below.)   In his lifetime, William Charles Rushton (1860 – 1921), was a mill worker, actor, published poet – and land and seascape artist. William was born 4th September 1860 at Windill, Shipley, into a…

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‘Past Silsden Artists’: a new paperback book illustrating the lives and work of seven past artists from the Silsden area of West Yorkshire.

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