Artist, Jim Smith, was born in 1959 in West Bowling, Bradford. He was one of six children from a working class family. He showed an early aptitude for art and after leaving Fairfax School he attended an art foundation course at Bradford School of Art. However, he decided to…
, Brian Needham, who died in 2006, aged 69, was was well-known and regarded for his paintings of wild life. But he was also a respected art teacher, and a prolific painter of pub signs. He had developed a talent for art from an early age but, as a professional artist,…
When the Keighley-born George Frederick Demaine began his course at the Royal College of Art in 1914, he had reached an important cross-roads in his life. At 22 years of age he was a little older than most of the other first year students. And, from a working class…
