Branwell Bronte (1817-1848) has a place on this website as his work is exhibited – not just at the Bronte Museum at Haworth – but at the National Portrait Gallery in London. If he could have anticipated this honour in his lifetime, it may have extended his life – which became…
1808 – 1890 John Hunter Thompson was a friend of Branwell Bronte and both were taught art by William Robinson of Leeds. Thompson and Branwell were members of a group of struggling Bradford artists and writers who met regularly for drinking sessions in the George Hotel. Thompson, unlike Branwell Bronte, was…
Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont (nee Butterfield) (1889 – 1984) was the daughter and only child of Frederick and Jessie Butterfield (The ‘Roosevelt’ part of her name came from her maternal grandmother, who was believed to be related to Theodore Roosevelt). Her family had become successful as worsted spinners and manufacturers and owned…
Bruce Rimell is a visual artist and poet living in Shipley. Born and raised in Wiltshire, he has been living with his husband in Bradford for twenty years, and running his arts practice freelance since 2007. Largely self-taught as an artist, his academic background was originally in astrophysics. This…
Tom Woolley is a freelance illustrator and digital designer based in Bradford, specialising in illustrated maps and hand lettering. His commissions have included work for Computer Arts Magazine, Esquire Magazine, McCain Foods, TMW, Carlton Kids Publishing, Ivy Press, Ernst & Young, Cape UK, Arts Council England, Think Publishing, Locate Magazine, King’s…
Working in her first-floor studio Kerry J Stoker makes abstract paintings and collages. She says of her work: ‘Joyful and spontaneous, my paintings and collages are intimate expressions of how I see and interpret the world around and within me. I aim to articulate, and share, that elusive personally significant…
Lucia Smith is a landscape painter based in Ilkley, where she has lived for over forty years; she grew up here as a child and returned after 12 years away, loving living near the moors once again. She says they enhance her life, and feels very lucky to live…
The painter, Nigel Overton, was born 1952, in Doncaster. He now lives in Ilkley, where he has a studio: Overton Fine Arts. He has a degree from Loughborough College of Art & Design in Drawing, Painting & Printmaking and completed a post-graduate teaching qualification at Leeds. Nigel advanced in teaching to become Head…
Born 1948, John Trueman, lives in Idle, and is a largely self-taught artist, using oil, acrylic and watercolour to paint mainly local and regional scenes that present a record of the changing scene in and around Bradford. Although local scenes have been the main focus of his art, he does paint…
Geraldine Thompson is a painter living in Addingham on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Near to her home she has her Studio in Chapel Street. She has an MA Fine Art from The University of Leeds and is an exhibiting member of Leeds Fine Artists. She has exhibited…
