Haworth artist, Bill Parker, has worked as a professional artist, art tutor, and art college lecturer for over 30 years, including teaching in London and Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded a BA in Fine Art (painting) from Wolverhampton University in 1975. Later he was awarded a…
The refugee crisis in Europe from 2015 onward is is a timeless reflection of the impact of war on ordinary people. In 1914 Europe faced a similar crisis when thousands of Belgium citizens were uprooted when their homes were razed to the ground in the early stages of the First World War.…
John Frederic Greenwood (1885-1954) watercolour artist, wood engraver and printmaker, was born in Rochdale, but studied between 1904-8 at Shipley School of Art and Bradford School of Art, then at the Royal College of Art (RCA), 1908-11. He lived for most of his life at Ilkley and died there. He is best remembered for his…
Darren Baker has had his work widely exhibited and is particularly noted for his portraits of the famous, including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, the Bahrain Royal Family and Tony Blair, and a range of sporting champions. He was official artist to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, a Fine Art Trade Guild Award Winner…
Amy and Ben Bucki are husband and wife professional photographers and artists and the founders in 2009 of ‘Ribbon Art and Photography’, based in the Keighley area. In addition to commissioned commercial photography, they are engaged collobaratively or respectively in photography as an art form or social document and in the creation of sculptural, art and craft projects. They…
Daniel Abrahams was born in 1977 and lives in Wibsey, Bradford. He paints predominantly in oils on canvas and his subjects are often influenced by the Northern English landscape and nostalgic memories of the past, particularly childhood. He has said: Growing up in the eighties I’m from a generation of kids that played…
Painter and printmaker, Fiona Kemp, has studied and lived in Bradford for nearly 20 years, and has a particular interest in capturing the city and urban environment in her work. She has said of this: I am fascinated by reflections, the distortions and blurring that are produced when the cityscape…
Ceramics artist, Roger Lewis, lived and worked in Bradford for many years before moving to a new studio in Kirkby Stephen, where he now lives. He was a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Ceramics between 1971-1997 at the School of Art, Bradford College, and has worked a full-time Ceramicist since that time. …
John Allcock pursued an academic career at the University of Bradford for thirty-five years. He was a Reader in Sociology, and specialist in the study of the former Yugoslavia. In this capacity, he served as an advisor to Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons, and as an expert…
Denise Mitchell is an award winning artist with a particular interest in painting wildlife and nature in all its forms, including land and seascape, using mainly watercolour, oils and soft pastel. Images: taken from artist’s website (see below) and used with the artist’s permission. Denise lives at Baildon and studied art at…
