Month: April 2023

EVANS, Thomas Sherlock

    Thomas Sherlock Evans (1893 – 1982), was a lithographic designer at a Bradford printing company. But he was also a successful fine artist, who painted still life artworks, commissioned portraits, and land and seascapes. He was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland, to parents:  father, also named Thomas Evans, a photographer/artist, …

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WARD, Simeon (Sim)

  Simeon (Sim) Ward (1840 -1903) spent most of his life as a draper in Bradford,  but in his final years was drawn to paint street scenes of the city.  His paintings of old buildings in the city, now long gone, has left us with an important visual record of a…

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Hockney and Bridlington

Between 2005 and 2013  David Hockney was resident in the Yorkshire coastal town of Bridlington.  This proved to be a particularly creative period for him. * David Hockney, born 1937, is Bradford’s most famous and celebrated visual artist – and one with a worldwide reputation. In 2011, a thousand artists voted…

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