Information on the artist....
1947 Born in Accrington, Lancashire
1965-69 Studied at Slade School of Fine Art
1971 Moved to Green Haworth, a small village on the edge of the Pennine moorland where he created many pieces of art all centred around this location.
1978-1980 around this time is when he started work as a postman for several years abandoning painting and found a new way of creating art on an acid-free board using a dense network of lines drawn with pen and ink.
1965-69 Studied at Slade School of Fine Art
1971 Moved to Green Haworth, a small village on the edge of the Pennine moorland where he created many pieces of art all centred around this location.
1978-1980 around this time is when he started work as a postman for several years abandoning painting and found a new way of creating art on an acid-free board using a dense network of lines drawn with pen and ink.
1980 Began setting his drawings in large grid formations
1991 Began working directly from nature on large un-stretched canvases
1996 Began working on stretched canvas from drawings
1991 Began working directly from nature on large un-stretched canvases
1996 Began working on stretched canvas from drawings
He also has many collections of his work in a number of different galleries including the Tate Gallery, London's British Museum, Walker art centre, Art Society, Yale centre for british art and many more...
Here are some examples of his work:
His paintings are usually large townscape images of London, dark ominous skylines and smoky skies-his style is like modern Gothic with an abstract flair.. I really like the deep black toned areas he's applied in this painting it makes you really concentrate on what it actually is- its hard to make out what is buildings and what is the river but its still a brilliant image.
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