The artist, Joy Godfrey (1937-2025) was in born Cheshire, but lived for many years at Ilkley, where she also had a studio. She studied at Bradford Art School, 1973-77, where she became interested in silk screen printing. After graduating she worked in a variety of art mediums, including silk screen printing, bronze casting, etching and more recently, painting in oils and watercolour.
‘Le Tour, Ilkley, 2014’. Image: Artist’s website: (see below)
Her work was exhibited at group shows in Yorkshire, including at York City Art Gallery, Dean Clough, Cartwright Hall, Bradford University, and Bradford Industrial Museum; and in London at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Joy also had solo shows in Yorkshire, including at Lotherton Hall, Bradford College, and at The Strid Exhibition Centre, Bolton Abbey.
‘I believe in Angels’. Image: Artist’s website (see below)
‘City Park, Bradford’. Image: see artist’s website, below.
Joy was also an Artist in residence at A Century of Yorkshire Landscape, The Manor House Art Gallery and Museum, Ilkley in 1993, and was a regular exhibitor on the Ilkley Art Trail. Her work was sold by Saatchi Art, and from her own studio in Back Nelson Road, Ilkley. A portfolio of her work can be viewed via the website link below.
Her website includes a video of Joy talking about her work: www.joygodfrey.com/