Art Teacher, from Regional College of Art Bradford, Douglas Wilkinson

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  SELECTIONS OF MY ART WORK       

The Art Department, when I was a teenager at school, had an annual exhibition; Brian Stott, who later played cricket for Yorkshire, commented that it was virtually my exhibition – I had so many works on show.

My paintings need some comments.

My Auntie did one art homework for me, and was given 10 out of 10; but this did show me what could be achieved.

The media used include watercolour, oil, acrylic, pen and ink, mixed, etching, and lithography. Using Google Maps, you may like to see what the location looks like now, and perhaps how careful I was in my painting. 

Printing this page may help.  A left click will enlarge the picture, before returning to the Blog through the top bar title.

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CH Coach House Exhibition

SH Swing Cottage

RAG Rochdale Art Gallery

MB Sally Brown Gallery, Marple Bridge

16 Littleborough ARTS

Art Galleries: Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Halifax, Marple Bridge, London

NFS not for sale

pc/Private - in private collections

The first a small oil of my Dad (who was an extremely good cricketer ... and Dad. In Italy, as the front-line moved northwards, a group of England and County players arranged a match, inviting him to play; he scored 111 - sending me the scorecard.  Sadly, his friend Hedley Verity was killed in the battle for Monte Casino.) NFS #1

Methodist Chapel in Beverley, near Hull (where I studied whilst in the RAF) £350 #2

Lithograph of a Meteor 4 Jet Fighter  £300 #3

Lithograph of a Cockerel on an East Yorkshire farm PC  #4

Lithograph of Barabbas was shown at The Young Contemporaries, in London; and illustrates a poem by my friend John Isherwood: Barabbas (Son of a Father) is enjoying release, but sees Jesus going to die on the cross, which should have been his; as we see Jesus dying in our place.  £300 #5

(A few years earlier, I had an oil painting in this national exhibition - this is one of the greatest honours for an art student.)

An etching of the same subject, also made at Hull Art College NFS #6

The woman at the well - John chapter 4, or Genesis  24, etching NFS #7

Abraham NFS #8

Abraham   Private Collection #9

Moses and the Serpent of Bronze  £800 #10

Two abstract paintings of the Cross -Professor H. R. Rookmaaker (Free University of Amsterdam) saw this as “iconic” in style – 1974,  Coloured, Private Collection, #11

Small version,  Private Collection #12

Black and white £140 #13

An abstract of the Resurrection: indicating the ten main appearances – this currently hangs in my study  £600 #14

Lettering £40 #15

Watercolours of Greek locations: Market Place, Corinth  £300 #16

Market Place Athens  £250 #17

Quite out of place: My Aunt and Uncle (Mr and Mrs Dowlman) - The Bakers   Private Collection #18

My first painting in oil after using poster paints at school and college, Low Hall Farm. John Wesley preached in the barn here at the beginning of an awakening in the village of Horsforth.  Nothing like it has happened again yet, in this village  £300 #19
Early oil: back yards from a school playground, off Kirkstall Road, Leeds, UK  c 1951 #20

A Church East of Driffield, oil, NFS #21

Two watercolours of Robin Hood’s Bay slipway    Private Collections #22

From the walls of Berwick-upon-Tweed – the Rope Walk   Private Collection #23

The old lane to Syke, Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough, UK  £150 #23a

Porlock Weir, Somerset (large and small versions)  Private Collections #25

Canal at Marple Bridge with Florence  £200 #26

Canal at Castleton, Rochdale  £200 #27

Cloud Burst from the Library, Rochdale  £200 #28

The stonemason's brilliant carving of my design: the memorial plaque in St Mary's, Cusop, a mile SE above Hay-on-Wye, Wales.  William Seward was the first Methodist martyr. #29

Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Rodley - my second oil painting, 1951  £300 #29

Reconstruction of the view from the Mountain looking over Corinth and the Isthmus, based on a 19th century engraving  £400 #30

Two early commissions   Private Collection #32 #33

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Here are watercolours from a painting trip to Galway, in Eire [Old Canal Basin £400; Old Canal Basin Sketch £200; Derry Clare Fishermen £300; Derry Clare mother and child £300] Aran Cottage £400 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39

The Magi – for Christmas decorations at St Martin’s! I was not asked again.  Destroyed!     #40

Inishmore, Aran Islands, The Buren in the distance  Private Collection #41

St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall  £300 #42

A friend in the Art Club  Private Collection #43

Albion Street, Castleton, Rochdale  Private Collection #44

A spoof architect’s communication: exploring the moral failings of the 1960’s  £450 #45

Jack the Art Club Boss  Private Collection #46

Another friend in the Art Club  Private Collection #47

Red Cliff, Sidmouth   £400 #48

Albion Street, Castleton, from the studio   pc #49

Early Graphics, some for Bert Gray's Children's Magazine #50

Two book illustrations  £300 #

Kylemore Abbey, Eire  £300 #38

St Paul’s Bay, Malta, Acts 27:27ff  £200 each #

Axmouth II in blues, Devon, several versions: £400 - two of these in pc #70 #71 #72

Illustrations for Rev D. A. Tipper’s books - one encouraged by Lady Betjeman

Based at St Mary's Balderstone, Rochdale #51 #52 #53 #54 #55 #56 #57 #58

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The "Bonfire" Church, Malta - the site where Paul the Apostle helped to build a fire, Acts 28:1 ff  £400 #59

Semi-abstracts of Deganwy, North Wales  £600 each #60 #61 #62
Original sketch for the above NFS #63
American Custom Schooner, oil, painted from an accurate model   pc #64

A print of a pen drawing: Hall-inth’-Wood, Bolton, I have illustrated several books, and tried for the Royal College, in this area, but was thankful not to be accepted.  Originals £350, prints £4 - usually unframe

Little Morton Hall, Cheshire  prints £4

Moorlands Bible College, above the cliffs between Dawlish and Teignmouth, pen and ink, used variously

An abstract of the Gospel Message, a diagram I have drawn more simply for several thousand people, to show: how our lives begin (the red line), but must continue forever - in either Heaven, or Hell.  The dark is to indicate that we are all sinful - guilty, and cannot enter the narrow gate of Heaven, which requires perfection, on Judgement Day.  However, there are the Cross, and the Resurrection to offer hope - we can accept God's loving mercy by repenting of our sinfulness (admitting our failing, and accepting God's help to become a new creation)  If you like, praying to the Lord Jesus the Messiah to save us: "Lord Jesus, please save me!"   Heaven satisfies God, and will certainly be glorious for us.  £500

Tenby, North Wales  Private Collection

Axemouth (Devon) several versions [one Private Collection], £450 each

Godshill, Isle of Wight  £600 #73

Lifeboat, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight  £500 #74

Here is the style mentioned elsewhere: of portraying a present-day scene, with the meaning of an historical drama: the lady artist selling her prints, becomes the prophetess Huldah giving copies of her prophecies; three men on the jetty become Jesus calling James and John the sons of Zebedee to be disciples

The beginning of a series of Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough, this one in the style of Corot  £300 each, if not Private Collection #75

Syke Farm, Hollingworth Lake  PC #76

Bonfire Night, from a house across Back Lane, Horsforth, near Leeds  £200 

Semi abstract: GMPT Bus Interior, oil, £500 #78

Exam piece – Gold and Silversmithing #77
Design for a church Ewer in silver and wood #80

Kirkstall Abbey from the west, in the style of John Piper, Leeds, UK  £300 #79

Uncle Eric Pearman’s fishing spot, Boston Spa  Private Collection #82

Abersoch, Pwllheli, and Snowdon in the far distance, North Wales  PC #83

Yorkshire houses, blocks made by the Yorkshire Post, printed by a helpful Jewish printer  Originals £200, prints £4 - usually unframed
Austhorpe Hall, Crossgtates, Leeds #84        
Red Hall, Leeds #85
Heath Hall, Wakefield, UK #86

A Lancashire houses Original £200, prints £4 -usually unframed
Smithills Hall, Bolton, UK #87

The view from the Jam Pot, Llanbedrog, North Wales  £300 #88

A tribute to five famous people, Warwick Castle c 1750  £500 [large - 175 cm x 56 cm, hung on two plugged screws] #89

Detail of the above, showing Rev John Wesley

Detail: St Paul's Head, tribute to Hogarth

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A funeral passing through a cornfield in which the first sheaf has been harvested – signifying the resurrection of Christ, which is the beginning of the harvest for the Resurrection of Christians. The body is being taken to the Church burial ground – at the far end of the harvest field.   A black and white reproduction - from which this is taken - hung in the Rectory study of Vincent Van Gogh's father, and was a considerable influence.   £200 #90

Several scenes in Malta: Buildings near St George’s Bay, Marshashlok, Marina near Valletta £400 each #91

Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough, Open Air Service, same scene as a landscape  £400 each 

A depiction of The Ascension in the genre mentioned earlier, Hollingworth lake   Private Collection

Hollingworth Lake - stylized, The Holy Family in Egypt PC

Vision I saw of an angel with a drawn sword over the village of Littleborough, Lancashire, England     Private Collection via Rev Keith Mason

May at September Cottage, in August (work this out!)   Private Collection

View from Wayside Farm - Island Farm, between Scarborough and Whitby          Private Collection 

Sid’s Patch, a market garden, Wayside Farm, between Scarborough and Whitby    £200

Robin Hood's Bay  [several - Private Collections and £200]

Grange in Borrowdale, the Lake District, UK , Bull Rock, Grange in Borrowdale (a version of each was stolen from a gallery in Hebden Bridge),  Private Collections Jim Hanon, Swing Cottage owners, and £200

Lettering – John chapter 4

Semi abstract of a motor cyclist – omitting the adverts   £300  #107

Four watercolours - whilst little Eve played on the beach at Scarborough  NFS

Poster for an exhibition

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Chiggia Venice, Oil on board - as a tutorial for my art class (one of my students did a better one, and won an award with it)  Private Collection #110

Llanbedrog beach, North Wales, acrylic on board     Private Collection

Aberdovey, North Wales, watercolour - my little Granddaughter Eve did seven or eight (aged 7), whilst I painted this   £200

Hollingworth Lake - acrylic on canvas, semi-abstract, c 1975   £400  [78 cm x 62 cm]

A most beautiful clump of trees, Hollingworth Lake   £200

How Cezanne may have painted the Lake by coffee break   £400

The end of Abstract Art - respect for Mondrian   £400

Horsforth Hall, near Leeds, c 1951   £500

Turton Tower, Bolton, Lancashire, UK   Original £200, prints £4 - usually unframed

Topsham, on the River Exe - the genre mentioned earlier, the home of Peter’s Mother-in-law   £250

A page from my sketchbook, c 1953   NFS #120

By the Lake – Mary and Joseph on the way to Bethlehem   £200 (Nicky)

Sketch of Upper Bank House, Horsforth – the final oil painting was exhibited at The Young Contemporaries, London  NFS

St Mary's Church, Beverley, near Hull   Private Collection

Saxon tower of Barton-upon-Humber church, Lincolnshire c 1953   £200

Barwick in Elmet, near Leeds, pastel, pen and ink   £250

Conwy bridges and castle, North Wales - 1951, to please my family - with an accessible picture; based on a sepia photo given to my parents by Leonard Bussy - a dear friend of my family, and an artist who helped me so very much in my early days as a landscape painter.  £200

Old Piccadilly Station, Manchester, Timothy looking for Paul (can you find him?) Private Collection
Old Piccadilly Station, Manchester,  Phoebe travelling to Rome with Paul's letter     £350
Guardsmen's Band  £350
Anglers on the Ouse, downstream from York  £350
A ford in Happy Valley near Aberdovey, North Wales £400
Mill Lane, Willaston Village, Cheshire, UK  Private Collection
Two fabric designs
Poster
Illustration for a Children's Talk on Hannah
Poster for Jewish Outreach
Book Jacket designs
Local Schools, for publication #140

Illustrations for a fine book by Rev Daniel Mathano Mwailu PhD, "To Be Like Jesus", An Appraisal of Biblical Theology in Practice of Personal and Ministerial Spiritual Formation, Westbow Press, USA, 2019     

Thoughts on Portrait Drawing

My son's photographic portrait of me
My Daughter's illustration for the Four Beasts of the Book of Daniel - drawn whilst at Bury Girls Grammar School, prior to Art College
My Granddaughter's painting for her Nana, whilst at Sixth Form College, prior to university to study Digital Arts for 3D Games and Media, Hons Degree, Post Graduate work, Other works by Zara Whittle, BA (Hons),  

Cf. Terry Burke  

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Portraiture – some thoughts on the subject

Holbein usually painted from an angle between profile and full face.

A good portrait has something of a caricature about it.

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 Not by Holbein - but by my daughter, in a rich seam in the LVI at Bury Girls Grammar School

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 Hans Holbein the Younger, (1497-1543): Anne Cresacre, 1528

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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543: Georg Gisze, a German Merchant in London, 1532

Decide on the general shape of the head

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   Draw a very faint line half way between the top of the head, and the chin, for the placing of the eyes

• Half way below for the shadow at the base of the nose

   

   Half way again for the centre-line of the mouth

  

   

  Start to draw the features

  Slight variations in these proportions give faces their character

  Ears come behind the cheekbones – the tops level with the eyes

  Observe and draw the eyes – almond shaped, with the space between, about the width of the eye

  Look carefully and draw the details

  

  The eyebrows give much of the character.

  The nose from the front has only the nostrils showing lines - the rest is degrees of shading

  Be prepared to draw every strand of hair.

   

  

  In a class, I reckoned I could always recognize the scholar: because we all draw rather like the face we show most interest in.

  Clothing gives time for relaxing work, and the background may be used to show associations with the life of the sitter.       

   

My portraits were made using photographs - open air, diffused light (to avoid sharp shadows), telephoto lens (to avoid the distortion of closeness)

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A portrait by my son  >www..HowardWilkinsonPhotography.co.uk< 

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My Grandson, Leon Whittle has some of his work on "Film, TV, and Stage Sets Design" on the Internet:           

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