Biblical and Beach Paintings Yorkshire
Biblical Paintings Yorkshire
Oil
Painter for the BBC2 Omnibus version of Van Gogh by Patrick Barlow with
Linus Roache, and "A Question of Attribution" by Alan Bennett
filmed by
John Schlesinger. Specialising in Biblical and Beach paintings for the
last twelve years he lives at West Bretton near the Yorkshire Sculpture
Park.
Born
at High Hoyland, on the edge of the Yorkshire Pennines.
Father a Forester on the Bretton Estate of Lord Allendale.
Attended QEGS Wakefield and QEGS Hexham.
Captain of Cross Country Running.
Degree in Fine Art at King`s College, Durham University,
Where his tutors were Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton.
The only Fine Art Student to complete the Three Peaks Race at that time!
Variety of teaching work in art, film and photography, literature and
sport.
Lecturer in Liberal Studies at Wakefield Technical College from1969
to 1972.
Travelled in Europe and Israel. Lived in a tent on the Gulf of Eilat.
Worked as a spray painter, psychiatric nurse, sheep farmer, forester.
Studied the UFO phenomenon at Warminster in Wiltshire for several years.