Anji Timlin is a Haworth-based landscape artist and local teacher/tutor. She was born in Leeds, but has lived in the Bradford district for much of her life. She attended Bingley Grammar School, plus a period of secondary education spent in New Hampshire, USA. In 1994 Anji completed a Foundation…
Alfred Addy (1866 – 1930) was a Bradford-born painter and art dealer. He moved to the USA in 1906, and one of his paintings is now in The White House Collection. Alfred was the son of William Addy, a wool buyer, and mother, Louisa. He was one of seven…
William Henry Parkinson (1863 – 1916) was a Bradford artist and photographer. His father, also named William, was a Master Printer, who died when William jnr. was in his early teens, leaving his mother, Elizabeth, to look after him and his sister, Clary. The family lived with Elizabeth’s parents at Rooley…
The landscape painter, Annie Theodora Robertson (nee Shaw) (1896 – 1978), only felt able to start painting when she was in her fifties. But Annie lived to see her work exhibited in major British art exhibitions, including a solo show at Gateshead. She was born in Bradford, one of …
The landscape painter, William Hartley Waddington (1883-1961), was born in Bradford, one of three children, including his twin sister, Beatrice, and a younger brother, George, to parents, George Hartley, a wool merchant, and mother, Ruth. The family lived in the then affluent Manningham district of the city and were…
William Arnold Stewart (1882–1953) was born in Ilkley. He became a noted expert on Egyptian arts and crafts, an influential crafts education adviser for Palestine, and a successful painter, noted particularly of scenes from the Middle East He was one of five children to John Reich Stewart, a local Superintendent of…
Paul Greenwood is a self-taught artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He was born in Bradford in 1969 into a working-class family on the Buttershaw estate and from an early age showed an interest in painting and drawing. He has written: For as long as I can remember I could always…
Graphic designer and illustrator, Carl Murgatroyd, was born 1964 in Bradford. From 1980 to 1983 Carl studied graphic design at Bradford School of Art and after leaving college went to work for a design agency in Leeds. He then worked for a range of design companies at senior…
