Category Archives: Yorkshire Arts & Music
Stubbs Means Horse Painting
This painting looks like a bit of an old nag nearly ready for the glue factory. So where is this going on a Yorkshire blog? Well the nations best and most accurate equine painter of horse flesh learnt his … Continue reading
Global Yorkshire
Global HQ In Yorkshire we don’t give false praise or butter up the none believers. Take us as you find us in God’s Own County. On the Global Web Our reputation and international presence goes before us but Yorkshire folk … Continue reading
Good Old City Variety Days
Do you remember the ‘Come Dancing’ TV series of 1950 or ‘The White Heather Club’ perhaps not but I bet you remember ‘The Good Old Days’. The Good Old Days started in 1953 and was broadcast live from the City … Continue reading
Wait for Old Yorkshire Music
Royal courts may have had their fools and jesters, Robin Hood had the wandering minstrel Alan-a-Dale and Yorkshire’s mayors had their ‘City Waits’. What was a Wait From medieval times groups of musicians were sometimes organised as waits. The York … Continue reading
Sea Shanties from Halifax?
Kimber’s Men are called by some a ‘Musical group’ but that depends on what you think about sea shanties and songs of the sea. Well in Halifax where this group of singers originated that probably says a lot. Performing around … Continue reading
From Mytholmroyd to The British Library
The British Library is another institution that is letting down the silent majority and failing to focus on its prime purpose as a ‘legal deposit library’. It should facilitate research from the published works it maintains in London and Boston … Continue reading
Frank Brangwyn’s War Posters and Yorkshire Connections
Frank Brangwyn was a multifaceted artist-craftsman who created murals, posters, oils, watercolours and furniture, textiles, ceramics, stained glass and prints. Among his significant body of work are many items in the Scarborough art collection. Commissioned to produce posters to support … Continue reading
19th Century Leeds Lad John Atkinson Grimshaw
John Atkinson Grimshaw (JAG) Whitby Looking South 1883 FlicrAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) What would an artist want to be remembered for? An appreciation of his or her works irrespective of genre, perceived or intrinsic value? A combination of … Continue reading
Painter Christopher Bramham
Yorkshire born former Bradford Art College student Christopher shares his surname with a Leeds village Bramham cum Oglethorpe. ‘Christopher Bramham new work‘ from jonathan clark fine art available from amazon and others From an introduction by Sebastian Smee, the Australian-born … Continue reading
More Modern Mosaics in Yorkshire
Four years ago I was much taken by the roman mosaics in Aldborough – it is well worth a visit. Isurium Brigantum was a Roman fort and town that has left us with several mosaic treasures including some housed at … Continue reading