Some images and words from Alan Dearling
In the Calderdale Valley of the Pennines, there are many, many locals who have grown up amongst and around the art works and art teaching of Jeremy Burgoyne. His current exhibition shares a selection of his fairly recent works. I already have a couple of his large canvases which I love for their quirkiness and their life-affirming energy which epitomises Yorkshire, the crags, the Bridestones, the rugged nature of the natural landscape and its people.
Until his early retirement, Jeremy was a teacher at the local Castle Hill school. Then in 1997, he had a stroke. It left him registered blind. He has recovered and bounced back, continuing to experiment with a range of art techniques. He has even produced a book about his recovery.
Jeremy says:
“This is a page where I store images of my oil paintings. I’m still learning what I can do on the page, but already know that it can include comments, likes and shares. At the moment I’m seeing it as a Facebook Gallery of my stuff.”
https://www.facebook.com/p/Jeremy-Burgoynes-Art-100028099673741/
This is an eclectic and eccentric show. It exudes humour and the peculiarities and patina of ‘local’ places, people and customs. I particularly loved his miniature ‘art gallery’ crammed full of his miniature paintings, each lovingly detailed and like the other works – all for sale at very reasonable prices.
Hoover the Talking Seal: An Account of Stroke Rehabilitation from the Patient’s Point of View
Looking forward to future artworks from Jeremy. Definitely an art institution in the borderlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. And, finally, the two Jeremy original oil paintings I already have in my own art collection – ‘The Lamplighters’ and the ‘Black Horse under the viaduct’. I own up, I bought more at the latest show!!!
