Accrington born artists.
 

Recently I've come across quite a few people who were born in the area, and who are/were working professionally as artists.

Rather than give them individual threads, I thought they could be listed here.

Please add anymore that you come across.

James Ingham Riley.
Lake Artists Society - James Ingham Riley

Stephen Warnes.
New Fine Art Canvas Prints from Stephen Warnes Espirito Art News

Jeremy Paul.
Jeremy Paul - Artist - Wildlife Artists - Turbary Woods

Susan(n) Ironfield.
Art@Unity

Mike Haworth.
Back Catalogue, | John Noott Galleries

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Arthur Dewhurst Riley.
http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_ess...p?essayID=2R22

http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz/log...t=about_object

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C.F.Dawson - (1863 - 1949) Artist, art teacher, painter.
R.A.Dawson Artist, C.F.Dawson Artist, M.E.Dawson Artist, MED Artist Painter, Tracing lost paintings of R A Dawson and C F Dawson, Dawson painting information exchanged, exhibited paintings Royal Academy etc

Elementary Design

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Oswaldtwistle born in this case.
Ronald Grimshaw - 1905 - 1982
Ronald Grimshaw - Biography

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Again Oswaldtwistle born.
Peter Haworth 1889- 1986.

Search - Canadian Paintings in the Thirties

Artist Gallery: Peter Haworth - Canadian Paintings in the Thirties

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Tsk, you modest little sole, whilst mentioning all these people nobody knows about, you forgot...

YOU!

But then I'm not artyfarty so what would I know?

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I have sold paintings and prints, as well as illustrations for Cosmopolitan, the Financial Times, and Vogue, amongst others, but for most of my career I was a fashion 'ho, and this threads about proper artists.

:D

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Don't forget ex-postman John Virtue, although I prefer a bit of colour in paintings:)

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He's famous enough, and deserving, of his own thread. :D


http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...-lad-8208.html

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An old mate of mine, who actually had an exhibition at the Haworth last summer which was mentioned on here...

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...etc-47391.html

...and very good it was, too. :)

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Another professional artist - my mum

A lot of you may not know her name but you'll recognise some of her work. She was, until recently a pub sign artist. It's a very specialised field and there are only a few well known ones. Links to a few of her signs -

The Sundial > English Pub Signs | The J. Peterman Company
Astra Antique Centre - PUB SIGN WHITTINGTON CAT

She used to do a lot of work for Thwaites and Whitbread - The Stop and Rest, The Plough, The Wheatsheaf and The Heys were all hers for a long time. I think the one outside the Golden Cross still bears her name, plus the Black Dog.

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There is a chap called Brian Ormerod who deserves to be in the front row. He paints and does fantastic sculpture. He was employed as an artist at Joseph Arnold's and then was taken out to America. He returned home to care for his mother and worked as a chef. Now fully retired I think. Lived in India Street most of his life, now up Spring Hill way.A very modest man but fantastically talented.

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Bohuslav Barlow, R.A. (1947- )
A refugee from Czechoslovakia, but lived in Oswaldtwistle as a child, and that's where he started to paint.

Campden Gallery

Bohuslav Barlow Artist

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John Baldwin (1946- )

John Baldwin | View Two Gallery

jbaldwin index

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Angela Wakefield, (1978- )

Angela Wakefield @ Ascot Studios Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Lancashire