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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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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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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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Don't forget ex-postman John Virtue, although I prefer a bit of colour in paintings:)
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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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Angela Wakefield, (1978- )
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'This is what I did before my hands started shaking and this is what I have done since then'. Can you see the improvement? ;) |
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http://www.artmarine.co.uk/CL_MoreIn...tArtworkID=830
Nick Clarke was born in 1952. Educated at Accrington Grammar School in the sixties and later at Accrington Art College, he then took up a seven year apprenticeship as a commercial lithographic artist. Maritime art has always been paramount and he has painted all types of water borne craft. Subjects range from a simple cobble to a large panorama of the RMS Queen Mary arriving at her final destination in the USA - one of many commissions of various types resulting from various exhibitions of his paintings over the years, including at the Royal Society of Marine Artists in 2005 and 2006. |
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Jeanette Barnes - born 1961, Great Harwood.
http://octaviagallery.com/JeanetteBarnes/ Jeanette Barnes personal statement - The team - Outreach - Education - Royal Academy of Arts Jeanette Barnes biography - The team - Outreach - Education - Royal Academy of Arts Artist Jeanette Barnes on how she draws | Art and design | The Guardian Jeanette Barnes - all artworks |
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Dale Grimshaw, born Accrington 1971.
Dale Grimshaw Dale Grimshaw « Format Magazine Urban Art Fashion Artasty.com - Interview with Dale Grimshaw YouTube - Artist Dale Grimshaw talks |
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I've never seen any of Dale Grimshaw's work before but I really like it. Must admit, I didn't see the other image in that portrait until it was pointed out - very clever.
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Garinda, thanks for all the local artists you have mentioned. Some I had never heard of, which is a shame, but you have now "edificated me". Very interesting!
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Leo Cheney - (1878 - 1928)
'Leo Cheney was born in Accrington in 1878, where he attended the local Grammar School before becoming a bank clerk. He was the first pupil to enroll on Percy Bradshaw's cartoon correspondence course, and went on to sell cartoons to publications such as Boy's Own Paper and Bystander. He later became staff cartoonist on the Manchester Evening News. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of the most famous 'Striding Man' version of the Johnnie Walker character for John Walker and Sons Whisky. Cheney gradually modified the original rather rakish figure into a 'rounder and more sociable character', and these drawings appeared in advertisements in the Illustrated London News between 1915 and 1919. However, his other illustrations also appeared in popular satirical and humour magazines such as The Passing Show. Cheney spent the final years of this life in Sussex, where he died in 1928.' <titleproper>Phil May and Leo Cheney Collection 'He is best remembered as the creator of the most famous version of the 'Johnnie Walker' character for John Walker & Sons Whisky. Included are two of Phil May's cartoons from the 1890s.' Archives Hub: Leo Cheney Collection I'm sure someone mentioned there was a local connection to the designer of the Johnnie Walker character. I searchjed his name on here, but couldn't find it mentioned before. So forgive me if Leo Cheney already has a mention. |
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Bob Dobson did mention Leo Cheney, in post 40 of this thread.
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James Fenton.
'James Fenton was born in Lancashire and studied weavig, pottery and industrial design at Accrington School of Art.' Powered by Google Docs One Man's War - Isle of Man Public Services - |
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Pauline Atkin - Sculptress - born 30th June 1893 in Accrington, but seems to have lived in London from 1918 onwards. Studied Chelsea Poly as well as Manchester School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools. Some of her works are: "The Frog Prince" 1919 in Bronze,"Dance Fantastique" 1926, "On the Fairway".
Her dad was Mr A H Aitken, 40 years a Town Clerk of Accrington. Pauline did a bronze bust of her father, which was presented to Accrington Corporation. Aitken Street named after him. |
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Susan(n) Ironfield.
Art@Unity Thanks Garinda ... remember Susan from the times her Mum and Dad and my Mum and Dad went bowling up Milnshaw Park. She was a lovely, unassuming, sweet, studious girl .. knew she would do well ... just surprised that she did art too. Lovely stuff. |
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Susan Ironfield comes from Accrington. She studied languages at Liverpool University and worked for many years in Germany as a painter, on the theme of musical intervals. She now lives again in Liverpool with husband Reinhard. Her book Full Circle—Astrological Archetypes, is forthcoming from Janus in spring 2010. The poems are based on several textbooks in English and German, and will appeal to those who care about human nature and culture in the subject of astrology, its unique wisdom, experience, and imaginative scope, and amazing psychological accuracy. The poems contain many references to writers, artists and composers.
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A medal awarded as a prize, when he was studying in London, 1878. NZ Collectors : Antiques, Collectables, Coins, Notes, Medals Online Born Accrington 1860, died Pitcairn Island on board the Rotorua on 29 August 1929, returning from a trip to England. |
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Sutcliffe Maudsley, Pioneer artist 1809-1881.
Sutcliffe Maudsley was born near Accrington, Lancashire, England. Like his father, grandfather, and other members of the family before him, Sutcliffe worked in the textile mills where he was a trained pattern maker and designer. At an early age, he was "bound out" to learn art, having demonstrated some talent as a young boy. Although the extent of his artistic training is not known, Maudsley's paintings show that he was a relatively accomplished amateur artist. This updated drawing may have been completed in England or Nauvoo. Online Gallery - The Works of Sutcliffe Maudsley Maudsley Lucy Mack Smith Maudsley's portrait of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saints. File:Joseph Smith Maudsley Portrait 1842-06-25.jpg - Wikimedia Commons Buried in Iowa. http://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php?id=9015 |
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Stephen Warnes, born 1951.
Welcome to Still Waters Art Gallery Still Waters Art Gallery - The Artworks of Stephen Warnes Departure from Accrington Station, Lancashire. Painting by Stephen Warnes Espirito Art buy canvas art prints and personalised artwork Stephen Warnes - Fine Art - Fine Art America - FineArtAmerica |
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Sorry Atarah, first one I didn't search on here for first, to make sure they hadn't already been mentioned...whoops.
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I believe that the bronze bust of former Town Clerk Mr Atkins, done by his daughter, PAULINE ATKINS, is on view in Haworth Art Gallery.
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Of course I know that she is a very clever lady with her designs .. as proof of our posters and programmes she does for Ossyplayers (and wins prizes for them). Was telling a friend about this and she commented that she thought The Heys sign had used a local character named Ben (....?) as a model. We knew whose father he was, but didn't know the daughter's maiden name. Is this correct ? |
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Yes, the Heys sign was two of the regulars.
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'COMIC cartoonist Leo Cheney will be turning in his grave. The monocled dandy who has made Johnnie Walker whisky famous throughout the world since the turn of the century is literally losing face. Foreigners apparently think he is too snooty so the famous Striding Man who has graced bottles of the hard stuff for 90 years is to shed his monocle and gloves. What would Accrington-born Cheney have thought? After all, for a decade he was the artist responsible for drawing the character. Leo, a former Accrington Grammar School pupil, took over work on the cartoon figure at the outbreak of the First World War. Originally, the figure had been created by Tom Browne on the back of a menu. His inspiration was supposedly George Peterson Walker, the whisky blender. When Leo took over there had been two artists, each stamping their own interpretation on the character. He gradually modified the rather rakish figure into a "rounder and more sociable character." The Striding Man was taken through the war years in a series of jingoistic advertisements. Later Cheney portrayed him walking, driving cars, sailing and even canoeing. The advertisements appeared in the Illustrated London News between 1915 and 1919 and also in Punch. The character appeared in sequences of adverts, including The Travel Series, the Old Craft Series, the Literary Series and the Historical Spirit series. But despite being an ambassador for the famous drink for almost a century, United Distillers have decided to give him a facelift. He is now becoming faceless and a shadow of his former self. A portrait of Cheney still hangs in Accrington Library. He used to send cricket sketches to the Accrington Observer before moving onto to the Manchester Evening News. He went to live in Essex where he died in 1928.' Lancashire news, sport and entertainment from Lancashire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside - Johnnie come lately |
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I have quite a few photocopies of Leo's sketchings. He was a talented black and white illustrator. Pity the library no longer have his portrait on show. His father was a dentist on Blackburn Road, near the old Grammar School.
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I don,t know if he was Accrington born , but he lived in OSSY.
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Urban Art Association - Dale Grimshaw solo show 'Arcana' opening 8th April Also listed at galleries amongst names of world reknown. Artist Profiles | Hang-Up Pictures Review of his latest exhibition, Arcana, from earlier this year. Dale Grimshaw “Arcana” | Curatedmag.com |
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Thought this gentleman was worth a mention again Garinda. He was mentioned in a thread in 2004 by Accy-mad.
Atarah knew of him ... of course ..:D Seems he has a chapter in one of Bob Dobson's book too. I have only just come across him because I have recently had contact with a classmate of mine from Peel Park and turned out was her uncle. Pictures and Paintings by Dennis Duckworth Dennis Duckworth. |
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Thanks to Garinda, I am now aware of this lady. I just LOVE her paintings. Wish she would exhibit up the Haworth Art Gallery. I particularly like the one she's done of Warner Street. Wonder if I could buy a print? Will contact her gallery.
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The Warner St one looks really good. We should get her up at the Gallery as you say. |
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Those sleepless nights, spent trawling, paid off. :D Be great to see her exhibited at the Haworth. I think she'd prove popular. |
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Turns out she was born in Park Road, Accrington in 1978. I love the local views she has done.
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TREVOR LINGARD
Born in the Lancashire mill town of Accrington, in 1952, Trevor lives in the picturesque village of Sabden, nestled in the historic witch country of Pendle Hill by the Ribble Valley. He is a professional artist without any formal art training, and is totally self-taught. Trevor's varied subject matter depicts nostalgic architectural and figurative scenes bordering on Romantic Impressionism. The characteristic economy of detail and the use of a limited palette awards his paintings with a sense of ambience. He is inspired by the post war English artists Edward Seago and Sir William Russel Flint, and over more recent years by the renowned artists Trevor Chamberlain, John Yardley and Ken Howard. Trevor Lingard's reputation is consolidating nationally, his paintings are exclusive, each one is unique, original and has the Distinctive Hallmark Style. (Great painting of the Market.) TREVOR LINGARD Biography Trevor Lingard Painting Gallery Artwork by Trevor Lingard YouTube - Trevor Lingard Watercolour Paintings |
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Flippin eck! Am impressed watching that video.
Good lad Trevor! Accrington born and bred, Russelll Street - descends from the Lingards of Huncoat. Just off to buy some paints and an easel ......... |
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Sorry Mr Lingard, I've seen better 'art' on a table mat.
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Go on, let's see your table mats. What are they of? Dogs and cats playing snooker? :rolleyes: |
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My table mats are plain white, to compliment everything else on the dinner table. You, no doubt, use the previous day's 'Sun' newspaper or, maybe if it's a Sunday, the last issue of 'Hello' magazine. |
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It's a good painting. The proportions of the Market Hall are correct, and the use of watercolour captures our wet, heavy, Lancashire skies very well. I've worked on paintings, based on sketches done years earlier. Some right back into childhood. Though sadly I haven't got any going far enough in time, in which you had hair. I presume the plain white table mats were a present from the asylum? :rolleyes: |
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My table mats, by the way, are Linum (thats a brand)...fourteen quid each from Selfridges a few years ago. As for the Asylum, I do believe that one of the standard treatments for the demented is to use childhood regression by getting the patients do sketches, followed by paintings, just as in the manner you describe. So where were you? Broadmoor..Rampton....? Pray tell. |
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Although my exquisite taste was already well formed before entering primary school. Selfridges? Isn't that the American department store, where the aspiring middle classes go to, to purchase (naff) fish knives, to match their plain white place mats? All a bit too suburban for my tastes. I hear there's still places left on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square. We should put your name forward. The Freaky Philistine Juggler and his Linum mats. |
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So having spent five years - at the taxpayers expense - studying art, what a shame it is that you now appear completely ignorant of the art world. The fourth plinth on Trafalgar Square is currently occupied by Yinka Shonibare's "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle". That is not due to be taken down until the end of next year, at which point it will be replaced by one of six shortlisted exhibits, amongst which are works entitled 'Battenburg' and 'Cock'. I suggest you use what little appears left of your artist's imagination to dwell on the latter. Irrespective of any suggestion, this has nothing to do with me.
But yes - mea culpa - I do occaisionally shop at Selfridges. The Manchester branch, that is. However, there did not appear to be many examples of the North-West's finest suburban classes there when I purchased the said mats a few years ago...accents were mainly Mancunian with a splattering of North-East Lancs....in fact, I'm pretty sure I met someone from Ossy while I was in there. Still, if that's how you wish to describe your fellow townspeople, that's your business. |
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I still think we should put your name forward. A horse's arse, will somehow be fitting, in a historical context. ;) |
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Put my name forward, by all means...
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Eat your sugar lump, and either add something constructive to this thread, or go and have a nap in Your Little Stable. This thread was created to record artists with a local connection. If you'd like to start an art appreciation thread, and discuss the subjectiveness of what's seen as good art, I'll happily join you, and run circles around you there too. Giddy up Dobbin. |
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I really don't know where you're coming from on this. I always thought that any artistic work was the end product of a creative process and as such is open to interpretation and debate. It would appear from your response that it serves no more purpose than to be bunged in some localised database of your making. Go on...on yer bike. |
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You are the curator of “Ships of Destiny” exhibition so is Brian a maritime artist?
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Brian can paint anything with a great deal of skill. Not sure about his maritime work as this needs a good deal of research. ( I was assistant to Donald Swan FRSA, and did most of his research work.) However, I have several sculptures by Brian Ormerod and notably a Vikings Head which is part of 'Ships of Destiny' You are more than welcome to call and see anytime, We are just off Junction 36 of the M6. Frank Sanderson
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Elsewhere under this 'Accrington Hall of Fame' I have mentioned John Priestley Briggs 1868-1944, an architect famed for his work on theatre design.
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Try this for an Accrington born Artist.
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Here is his website (member here - 'Burningman') Andrew Johnstone, Artist. |
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Does anyone know of a local artist by the name of Jack Aldus, he lived around Brunswick Terrace in Accrington, not sure of exact location. we have an oil painting of a pekinese dog given by him to my wife when she was about six years old, so this must have the early fifties. I also know someone local who has a landscape by him painted in the thirties.
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No luck? I have asked around, people who get about more than I do even looked in the phone book, no joy. |
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I've never heard of her but there's an Accy artist mentioned on the Telegraph site today.
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Dennis Constantine - Photographer (1927 -2011)
Dennis Constantine, who has died aged 84, was a portrait photographer whose subjects included the Queen, Sophia Loren and Idi Amin. His passion for photography began when he was assigned to air reconnaissance during the second world war. He was born in Lancashire and went to Accrington grammar school (now Accrington academy). He originally wanted to become a quantity surveyor but war intervened, and he served at RAF Kankesanturai in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and later in Japan. Dennis Constantine obituary | Art and design | The Guardian |
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Good find Garinda.I was unaware of him being an AGSOB but suspect that he is one of a line of Constantines who were professional photgraphers in Accrington and Haslingden. In the picture postcard era, the family firm produced plebnty of pics of Accrington, many of them decoartive in that they were surrounded by leaves.
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Sue Ironfield - Born Accrington, 1945.
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Dave Pearson, 1937 - 2008.
(Not born here, but of interest because Accrington is mentioned as being near his final home, which it's hoped will be a museum in his memory.) £1m legacy of 'unknown artist' Dave Pearson discovered after his death | Mail Online Dave Pearson (painter) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Index |
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It's listed here that there is a painting by him in Manchester Art Gallery, done in 1932, titled 'Accrington from my window'. Sadly I can't find an image of this painting, or mention of it in the gallery's present collection. British and Irish paintings in ... - Google Books |
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I believe this COULD be the painting by Mr Dawson. His wife also painted. She too, for a short time was a tutor at the old Grammar School too
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Thank you. I LOVE it. Is it still in the possession of Manchester Art Gallery, I wonder? |
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I can't work out which side he's seeing the viaduct from. I really do like it. There's an early spring calmness about it. The calm before the storm. Going through the war to end all wars, and not knowing what horror lay ahead. |
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