Artists

Arthur Terry Blamires was born in 1930 in Batley Yorkshire. Blamires was a teacher of Geography before becoming a full time artist in 1984. He painted scenes from the English Lake District and from Yorkshire. He painted in oils with a style that depicted scenes accurately and factually.

Born in Leeds, Peter now lives in the Yorkshire city of Hull with his wife and three young children. Bell’s paintings are about the moment, simple pleasures, his warmth, humour and wit shine through the paintings, whilst engaging the viewer with his natural fluency in the subject and composition which is all the more remarkable for someone without formal training.

Terence Bennett painter and teacher, born and lived in Doncaster, Yorkshire. He attended the local School of Art, 1951–6, then after National Service taught, giving up teaching to paint full-time in a mining village near Rotherham, 1971.

In 1973 gained a Yorkshire Fine Art Fellowship, not long after he had taken up teaching part-time, eventually becoming head of art department, Thomas Rotherham College, Rotherham. Took part in many mixed exhibitions from series with Yorkshire Artists, Leeds, 1967; others including Park Square Gallery, Leeds from 1968; RA from 1974; Anna-Mei Chadwick, 1987; and Singer & Friedlander/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, from 1991, winning a prize in 1994.

He had a solo show at Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, 1967, later ones including Victoria Gallery, Harrogate, 1979, and Quaker Gallery and Grey College, University of Durham, both from 1998.

I am a figurative a painter working from my studio in Appleby in Cumbria.

I also publish my own giclee reproductions.

I became better known for watercolours but as result of summer school at the Slade in London I have now enjoyed developing a distinctive style in oils and acrylics. This has also made me enjoy much more “plein air” painting.

Over many years I have had a multitude of one man and shared exhibitions in galleries, mostly in the North of England, but also in Scotland and as far afield as Spain and New Zealand.

In the past I have exhibited in the Mall galleries in London in the Royal Society of Marine Artists Open exhibitions and in the Houses of Parliament and more recently I have had regular success in having work accepted for, and been a prizewinner in the Cumbria Open Artists exhibitions.

Kevin Devonport is a self-taught emerging artist that is currently based at Assembly House Studios in Leeds. It could be said that he has had a somewhat unorthodox entry into the artworld as he began painting whilst serving a prison sentence for drug offences. It was here that he won his first award, a Koestler award for painting at London’s South Bank Centre and since picking up further awards internationally in Florence, Milan and Paris. Despite not holding any artistic qualifications he does hold a First-Class Honours BSc in Social Science that does have an influence on many of his paintings underlying themes. His work has been exhibited throughout the UK and Europe and been extensively covered by the UK press.

Ken Burton’s interest in art began at school, leading to a career in design and engraving. Subsequently entering public service, Ken finally ‘retired’ in 1985 and settled down to his real vocation – capturing the beauty of the countryside in watercolour. Ken is inspired by Victorian watercolours and has spent the last 20 years visiting almost every county in the U.K. producing paintings, predominantly in watercolour, of the rapidly changing countryside, towns and villages.

Born in 1937, Pete Lapish was predominantly inspired by the 1950s. It can be said that the 1950s were dominated by Abstract Expressionism, a form of painting that prioritised dramatic brushstrokes and expressed ideas about organic nature, spirituality and the sublime.

Master Artist of Light & shadows Graham Carver has an uncanny instinct for finding and painting the scenes of our imagination. His sunbathed work creates deep nostalgia, a longing for hot unworried summers, the rural idyll. He has an extraordinary ability to capture a sense of peace and safety, of a pastoral England as once it must have been.

After a Norfolk childhood, Graham studied art and design at Hornsey College, London before going on to study painting at Leeds College of Art. Having settled in Yorkshire he taught art and design for a number of years before becoming a full time professional painter.

Derek from a very early age was naturally gifted at drawing and started his working life with an established Leeds graphic artist group called the “Merrion Artists” under the supervision of well-known photographer and artist Sam Chadwick.

Derek’s love of the Yorkshire dales and lakes is shown in the creations of his paintings over the years and has been exhibiting them with Kingswear Gallery for many years.

Sam Chadwick’s atmospheric paintings in his signature 'wet brush' watercolour style have been much in demand over the years!

Since his death in 1992, his work has been increasingly difficult to source, and we are delighted to offer a rare original oil painting.

Sue Eastland has always made her living as a professional illustrator although she trained as a designer graduating from Huddersfield University with an MA in Spatial Design.

She lives and works in West Yorkshire and takes her inspiration for her characters from viewing human behaviour and recording it in a humorous context. “I am a social observer and watcher of people and situations, I love trying to find the unexpectedly humorous or slightly disquieting detail that makes a painting or illustration come alive and tell a hidden story”. Her characters are often found to be behaving in a whimsical or capricious manner.

At an early age I was introduced to the world of art by my late father, who was a fantastic pencil drawer.

This gave me great inspiration to pursue artwork of my own, which has led to me producing commissions for clients as far away as Australia.

Like a lot of people during the covid 19 pandemic I was made redundant in March 2020. Having been in full time employment for the best part of 41 years to suddenly having so much time on my hands I decided this was the time to renew my passion for painting, finally taking the step to follow my dreams of painting as a career rather than a hobby.

Brian’s artistic ability gained him a National Art Award at the age of 7. Turning professional at the age of 28, he has been painting full-time ever since. Brian Horswell has travelled all over the world developing his talent, and his paintings have appeared in print form.

Tina Morgan was born in Lynton, Devon in 1952. She studied art and design in Cornwall. After gaining an S.I.A.D. in industrial design, Tina worked as an Art Director in London for a number of top creative advertising agencies. During this time, she won many awards including two at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1985 Tina Morgan decided to change career direction and began painting as a full-time professional artist. Since then, Tina has exhibited her artwork widely and is known known for her impressionistic paintings of the coasts, markets and streets of the UK, Europe and America.

David was born in Castleford, Yorkshire 1938, he left Secondary School to complete an apprenticeship as an electrician. He had a great interest in music in his early years and took up the trombone at age sixteen and later also played the drums. He worked as a semi-pro musician playing jazz, dance and later pop music.

Taking a break from the music arts in the 1960’s he then began painting and developed an interest in the visual arts...

David is a self-taught artist, but he prefers to be called a painter. He paints in a wide range of mediums including oils, acrylic and watercolours however his main love is painting in pastel paints...

He has been commissioned to paint various subject matter but mainly paints studies of landscapes, seascapes and life portraits.

In the past he has been invited to be Artist in residence at Newcastle, Grimsby, Gateshead, Birmingham, and Cork Jazz Festivals together with an exhibition at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz club London.

Biography coming soon!

Biography coming soon!

I am a self-taught oil painter, specialising in landscapes, especially those of northern England.

Using colour and tone, I try, through the medium of paint, to convey my emotions as I view a landscape that I find beautiful, or dramatic, or imposing. I am never trying to portray a certain object in all its clarity but rather I want to capture the objects as they sit in the landscape by conveying the envelope of light in which they sit. By doing this I can fulfil my aim of allowing the viewer to experience the feelings that inspired me when I was stood in front of the scene.

I use professional quality artists paint as these have the highest pigment load and can provide truer colours. My work is developed in my studio in Otley, using a limited palette, where I use photographs and sketches made at the time to help me capture the form of the landscape.

Born in Nottingham but raised in Johannesburg, South Africa then Leeds, true to her name Tinker trained to work with metal, earning a first-class degree in silversmithing and jewellery from Birmingham in 1992.

As a child in South Africa she collected fireflies, and the urge to collect stayed with her, she soon tired of working with traditional silver and gold, and instead found objects like soft drink cans shredded into strips and woven into clothes or jewellery, milk bottle tops, plastic tubing and delicate sweet wrappers.

Steven is a completely self-taught artist. He was born in Colne, East Lancashire in 1955 and still lives in the area with his wife and four children. Looking at the quality of Steven’s work today, it is hard to believe that he showed no talent for art as a schoolboy. He only began to paint when he was 27, during a period of redundancy and illness. He felt the urge to copy a picture of a Kingfisher and, to his surprise; he found he could do it with ease.

Robert Wyatt is an entirely self-taught artist, although his inspiration is drawn from the highly trained Renaissance painters, in particular those of northern Europe. A relative latecomer to the art world (his first commercial exhibition was in 2002 at the age of 36) he enjoyed a rapid increase in demand for his exhibition pieces, commissioned work and limited edition prints. Robert’s work has been exhibited at London’s Mall Gallery and Leeds City art Gallery along with several commercial galleries with pieces finding homes in collections throughout the UK and the Continent.

The techniques used in creation of the paintings are similar to those pioneered by the Old Masters, but with a contemporary and unique approach. Each piece is the result of a painstaking process which requires extensive planning, accurate draughtsmanship and the use of many layers, or glazes of paint.