An auction house is celebrating the work of almost 30 artists who painted the North.
Newcastle’s Anderson & Garland will hold its first dedicated Northern Art Auction tomorrow (October 28), showcasing the landscape, industry and urban life of the region.
The event will also reflect the various pathways taken by the painters on their way to becoming full-time artists.
Auctioneer and specialist Harry Pickup said: “We have curated this sale with real care, bringing together artists who captured the industrial North with honesty and warmth.
“There is a growing appetite for northern art, and we have seen increased interest from both private collectors and local dealers who want to represent these artists. It feels like exactly the right moment to give this work a dedicated sale on its home turf.”
Mining scenes figure prominently in the works on show, including those by Norman Cornish, Tom McGuinness from Bishop Auckland, who worked as a miner until he was made redundant in 1983, and William Hindmarsh, who served an electrical apprenticeship at Linton Colliery near Ashington.
Other artists whose work will go under the hammer include:
Hexham’s Birtley Aris, who was head of art at Tyne Valley High School;
Byron Dawson, who painted large artworks for the Laing Art Gallery and the now Centurion bar in Newcastle Central Station and for years was an illustrator for The Journal newspaper;
Alan Reed Cooke, who taught at Ralph Gardner School in North Shields and North Tyneside College of Further Education and captured the launch of the giant Esso Northumbria tanker by Swan Hunter in 1969;
George McLean from Ashington, who later ran the Bondgate Gallery in Alnwick for almost 30 years;
Whitley Bay artist Robert Jobling, who portrayed fishing life at locations like Cullercoats, originally worked as a ship painter at the Tyne General Ferry Company;
Robert Lambert Moore who was a staff artist at a Newcastle department store for 22 years before running his own gallery in Tynemouth;
Charlie Rogers who specialised in images of Newcastle streets and buildings and areas of Gateshead just before they were demolished, after working for years for Durham County Council helping to maintain playing fields;
Richard Hobson from Newcastle who worked as a furniture and interiors designer and paintings conservation expert at the Bowes Museum. Later, as a painter, he drew inspiration from the Tyne’s shipyards and Fish Quay;
Walter Holmes from Wallsend who was a geology graduate from King’s College in Newcastle and also held a diploma in geophysics from Imperial College.
