New book spotlights eminent Silsden artists of the past

A book about seven eminent Silsden artists of the past is being sold to raise money for Silsden Town Hall. Published by Silsden Local History Group, the 32-page book has been written by Colin Neville, pictured above, who runs the Not Just Hockney website, which features artists past and present from the Bradford district. Colin,a retired university lecturer who is an arts-related bookseller, has focused on Silsden's leading artists for the book, which, costing £5, will be launched at the history group's Remembrance weekend coffee morning at the Town Hall on Saturday, November 9th. Colin will attend to sign copies. He is pictured here in front of a watercolour of Bolton Abbey painted by Joseph West, one of the Silsden artists in the book. The others are Doris Schrecker, Augustus Spencer, who from a humble Silsden background became principal of the Royal College of Art, Hildred Harpin, of Swartha, who taught at Keighley School of Art and at Keighley Boys Grammar School, Stan Boardman, Dorothy Wade and Jack Clarkson.