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There is J Lawrence Isherwood exhibition of works at Wigan Town Hall, Opened by the State Minister for Works and Pensions Mr Ian Mc Cartney MP.
Friday 15th Nov. 2002 by invite
Sat 16 Nov 10.30-4.00 open viewing
There are works for sale. The entrance is in Hewlett Street.

This weekend!
This is how this web page started!

Can you help?

I've had a question I can't answer. I've tried the search engines and I got knowhere, it reads ....
" I read somewhere that Lowry was a big fan of James Lawrence Isherwood. I have a large self portrait of Isherwood and I was wondering where I could find further information about him"


Replies... thanks

Dear Anthony

Like your correspondent, I too was after information about Lawrence Isherwood, because I have a small Lowry-esque seaside painting by Isherwood and I'm trying to find out more about him.

I was a reporter for BBC radio in Manchester in the mid-80s and I went to visit Isherwood, who I'd never heard of, after a fire at his home destroyed a number of his paintings. He was an eccentric bachelor of about 60, still living in one or two rooms in this very badly damaged house which reeked of smoke and water damage, and which he had made no attempt to fix. His paintings were strewn everywhere, he appeared to have no regard for them, and he gave me the picture I still have as a present at the end of our interview. I can't remember where the house was but it was somewhere quite suburban - maybe Middleton or Prestwich or somewhere similar.

Isherwood told me that L S Lowry had regarded him as his natural successor. Can this be substantiated?

Incidentally I was at the new Lowry arts center in Salford last week. I now live in Bristol and don't get up to Manchester very often but I have a friend who works at the Lowry. I think it's quite spectacular.

Anyway, any information will be gratefully received. Best wishes Tony Coll




I found your web site most interesting and came across it looking through a vast number of sites.

I've studied Lowry for 25 years now and he remains my obsession passion. The man is an interesting as his work. You mention J Lawrence Isherwood. He died in 1989 but his work is in great demand - and in areas further afield than his Wigan hometown.

There are references to him under his name on the web. I did a piece on his years ago. I'm a journalist. The Independent is planning to do a big piece on him in one of the colour sections.

Lowry bought an inquest painting - woman with black cat - in the early 60's and it remained on his wall in his workroom until his death in February 1976. I've been looking round The Lowry at Salford and will be at the first show. It looks excellent but is not meant to be a tribute to L S Lowry. I met him just once.

With all good wishes

Geoffrey Shryhane

Simon Spence Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 11:38 PM Subject: Lawrence Isherwood

Subject: Isherwood

I'm in the process of writing an article about Isherwood for the IoS.

He's dead but his sister in law, Molly Isherwood, is alive and handling his estate.

I think he was better than Lowry, who stole his dogs. They were pals but Lowry got a London agent, while Isherwood was too balmy to deal. I was going to search the engines for more info but if you've done that already and drawn a blank, thanks for saving me the time.



If you have an more info, like quotes from Lowry about Isherwood, it'd be a real help.
Simon Spence




Tony.....~~... . I am told that Lowry bought one of his paintings, saying, "I only buy pictures I like and I bought an Isherwood years ago". I also understand that Prince Charles also bought one of Isherwood paintings when he was a student a Trinity College. Any information about the man would be much appreciated I think his art is superb. Ruth
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Tony,

Thanks for your message, Yes I would like you to pass on my e-mail to the group of people who follow Lawrence Isherwood's work. I am trying to get some photos, books etc together at the moment and I will pass these onto you in the near future.

Speak to you soon. Thanks very much for your help. Ruth G




Tony Coll says that Isherwood (who lived throughout his life in Wigan) was a bachelor. This is not true. He married but that marriage ended in divorce. In the late 70's or early 80's, Isherwood said he had married an admirer. The marriage did not take place although they lived together for a while. There are many similarities between Isherwood and Lowry. But Isherwood, unlike Lowry, devoted his whole live to his painting. Lowry had a full time job until he retired on full pension in 1952. Isherwood went through bad times, some of his own making. But he did have great regard for his paintings. He did give them away - sometimes. Or sell them for next to nothing. Another sign of a great artist. He wanted people to love his works - and those he dedicated to his mother (and there were thousands) he always refused to sell - even for good prices. These paintings are marked with an "L" on the reverse for "Lily."
Geoffrey Shryhane




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Wiganers queue for eccentric's paintings(people from the town of Wigan) David Ward Monday November 15, 1999
He wore sandals without socks, which was a daring thing to do in Wigan at the time. He also sported a cape, goatee beard and long hair, and he painted hundreds of canvasses (including a portrait of Mary Whitehouse with five breasts) in an eccentric artistic life dominated by twin passions: alcohol and his mother. Almost 300 of the paintings of James Lawrence Isherwood, some wild and brilliant, others dark and sombre, went on sale at the weekend in the function suite of Wigan town hall, with prices ranging from £75 to £1,200. Many depicted local mills, streets and canals; others showed scenes from Spain, Malta, London; rows of bottles (empty); racehorses; clowns; nudes; and his mother. All had been rescued from the vaults of two banks where they had been gathering dust for 10 years. Isherwood was born in Wigan, the Lancashire town famous for its pier, rugby league team and mintballs, in 1917 and died there of cancer in 1989. But he would probably have been happier cutting a dash in fin de siècle Paris and knocking round the bars with Toulouse Lautrec and the rest. "Painting drives me mad but I have to do it," he told friends. "It's the only thing I know." He was so prolific that he held more than 200 one-man shows in galleries across the country and also set up shop under Boadicea's statue on Westminster Bridge in London and in a lay by on the East Lancs road, a busy dual carriageway near his home. The Prince of Wales bought one of his pictures, as did LS Lowry. Isherwood also achieved some critical recognition: the Daily Herald found him "compassionate, gifted and dedicated" in 1962 and the Guardian called him "a great and uncompromising artist" in 1975. "He really thought he was good," said his sister-in-law, Molly Isherwood, who organised the sale. "He had this conviction that he was a true artist - and he certainly had the temperament. He could be very kind and charm the birds off the trees. But he could also be absolutely awful, vitriolic." He married and took his bride to live with his mother, Lily, in the family's semi detached home in Wigan Lane. But the new Mrs Isherwood, intimidated by her mother-in-law, ran away within a year. Mother (who liked her gin) and son (who preferred Scotch) lived together in unrepentant squalor. "They wouldn't get up until mid-afternoon," recalled Geoffrey Shryhane, a Wigan journalist who knew Isherwood well and has 70 of his pictures. "He wouldn't answer the door so if I was going to see him I used to send a telegram to say when I would arrive." Lily was Isherwood's inspiration and he painted her many times, often as a Lancashire madonna. "If she liked a picture, he would put an 'L' on the back and never sell it," said Mr Shryhane. "When Lily died in 1973, he was really stressed," added Mrs Isherwood. "He seemed to go a bit wild because she had kept a very tight rein on him." In the late 1970s, he left Wigan and for a time relished the brilliant light of the Mediterranean, spending time in Malta and Torremolinos in Spain. But he came home to open a gallery in his own house, which was wrecked by a fire in 1983. "The prices of the pictures are very reasonable," said Mrs Isherwood. "His wish was that the people of Wigan should buy them and appreciate them ... He wanted people to know there had been a genius in their town." On Saturday Wiganers queued round the block as they waited for the sale to begin. All but 30 of the paintings were sold.


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Why not buy the book and read the many stories relating to Wigan people.

All documented by Geoffrey from his 40 years as a local newspaper reporter.

The Long Silence.
Yes, but what was he really like?" The reporter from the Daily Mail had rung to get some comments about J. Lawrence Isherwood, the Wigan artist because a dozen of his oil paintings were for sale at an auction house in Chester.

Jim Isherwood was a true if eccentric painter. I had met him in 1963 and had been impressed by his limited fame. I didn't realise I would become his agent in 1974. I didn't realise he would, under my inexperienced guidance, find fame. I didn't know the hurt he would cause. Looking for a new venture, I suggested to Ishy that I and another Wigan businessman should hold an exhibition of his paintings at premises on Library Street. "O.K. but you won't sell any. I've tried for years. It's difficult", he said in the turpentine smelling chaos of his house at 151 Wigan Lane. He had been painting and drinking whisky for years. He was living like a true artist - and had never forgotten a quote by Stephen Dixon in the Arts Guardian... "He is a man living in the wrong age, living in the Paris 1900 style but yet in Wigan in 1974". That quote impressed Ishy. He had it printed on his pink note paper, along with the fact that he was listed in Who's Who in Art. "They say I'm Lowry's true heir", he said, the morning I took him for admission to Billinge Hospital for treatment. His nerves were shot at. He had been drinking too much. He needed help. "Show the paintings", he said, as they gave him sponge pudding on, arrival at Billinge. "You won't sell them". He was wrong. We did sell. In fact during a three day exhibition in the little room in the center of Wigan, we sold out and had to ask for more. The reason was simple. I'd taken some of the oils over to Granada T.V. in Manchester and they'd been shown in a 'What's On in the North" bulletin. The customers flocked in. We sold 25 at a preview before the official opening. The folks from Wigan and Preston and Blackburn had been influenced by telly publicity. Isherwood was delighted. He made us his agents. But there was a feeling of unease. He had agreed the commission. But then he was suspicious. "I'm the painter. I should get the lot". He didn't say it. But that's what he thought. He remained in Billinge Hospital. We gave his share of the cash to his brother. "I can't handle money", he said, more contented (on the surface) with teaching other patients to paint. We had another show in Wigan. And one in Chorley. We had a limited edition print. 'The Lancashire Mine'. Joe Gormley, President of the Mine workers Union signed a few. Out of 750, we sold 14. Then Isherwood found it all too much. One night he exploded. "I can handle my own success", he ranted. A telephone call from an evening newspaper brought the news that he had sacked us. We were no longer his agents. It was typical. Others had suffered similar problems with the highly original and volatile artist. It was, in my estimation, a blow below the belt. Jim Isherwood went to live at a Southport hotel. Then the papers said he had married. Time proved he hadn't. He rang me at the office. "Ishy here" he said, in that soft, persuasive voice. I was having none of it. He had let me down and I couldn't forgive him. I never spoke to Jim Isherwood again. To this day his pictures remain in our attic.

He died in the summer of 1989. His nephew Clive arrived at our house the next day. 'You knew him. Will you write his obituary. I did. It pulled no punches. Although we hadn't spoken for 15 years - he had let me down so badly I couldn't find it in my heart to forgive him - I decided to go to his funeral on that warm sunny day. I was early and sat on the wall outside the Parish Church. It was a time for personal reflection about this very colourful, yet controversial artist. I met him in the early 60s. Even then he looked older than his and walked with a shuffle. People said Jim Isherwood had dubbed a true artist not through his paintings but because he wore sandals without socks back in the post war years. It was easy for me, a young raw cub reporter, to be impressed Lawrence Isherwood, F.R.S.A., F.IA.L. Isherwood with his longhair, winning smile and his name not only in the papers but on the television. Around 1962 he appeared on the box in a news programme painting by holding the brush between his toes. He was a master of the news gimmick. A gift to reporters. And he enjoyed his celebrity. He loved dropping names. During his exhibitions in big cities - he loved both Oxford and Cambridge - he met the rich and the famous, who bought his paintings. But Wiganers - at least most of them - didn't really understand the art of Isherwood. "Just daubs" they laughed when they saw his works in Wigan Lane Post Office or Lowe's cafe. Even then, it was obvious to me that Isherwood was a talented artist. Throughout his career some works were far better than others. He himself once said a few would be better burned. My passion for paintings was developing in the early 70s. And there were many visits to the house on Wigan Lane. The house with the little note on the door asking callers to keep away until the afternoon. Isherwood's habit was to paint long, long into the night. Go to bed around four a.m. and stay there until the afternoon. A knock on the front door brought shuffling and the usual "who is it" question. He seemed almost afraid of strange voices. He never really coped all that well with people, except his mother, Lily, who was his absolute inspiration. And so there was entry into the painting palace. That palace of special and total artistic chaos. No telephone then. In the dark hall, paintings stacked in every corner. And in the front room. Everywhere, inches of dust. The window cleaner didn't call. Those marked "Lily" on the reverse meant they were mother Lily's and therefore not for sale. It wasn't a ploy. Try though I did, I couldn't buy a "Lily" work. So through to the dining room where Isherwood painted. Here the smell of oil paints and turpentine was strongest. And in those days, .Mother Lily was there, always glad you'd gone, always generous with the measures of whisky. Always "going on" at Jim. Mother and son often owed. But it meant nothing. She accompanied him to exhibitions. She saw to the business side while Isherwood talked about painting and life and about himself and his art. They always went to the pictures on Thursday. 'I've sold one to Prince Charles", he said, delighted after returning m the University city in the old red van which couldn't go more than miles without breaking down. The problem was that Jim Isherwood never knew how much to get for one of his paintings. All about were works showing the London scene, the Wigan views, the rainy paintings. Scenes abroad. Horses racing. Portraits of people, mostly famous. Portrait of Mother Lily in straw hat. Portrait of Mother Lily in Oxford. Portrait of Mother Lily as the Lancashire Madonna in her shawl. "How much" I'd ask. And the artist, his hands smeared with green or red or blue oils would chunter on. "I'm not bothered. Have it. Keep it. It's a present for that story in the 'the Observer'. Look, give me a flyer - well perhaps a tenner. No, take it home and see if you like it next week. If you do come and pay me". It was always the same. But any painting given for whatever reason always backfired. Isherwood would say: "Yes, and so and so still owes me for three paintings". Isherwood - man with two faces as I was later to discover to my utter disappointment. My collection grew. The first painting I ever bought was Boy in Wigan with Ball. It was pink and blue, and was the subject of much mirth. 'That art. It's a joke". Then there was a Scottish scene. A long picture of A Wigan Bus Queue in the Rain which to this day I can't find. But Isherwood's paintings had that certain something. An excitement. A flair. A freedom. And other serious collectors knew that even if he never became commercially famous, they had the work of a true original. And Isherwood was a true original. See his works from 50 paces and you know they are his. The signature is almost superfluous. One day I asked him why he marked the reverse of each oil painting with the price - always in guineas - and a cross. What did the cross represent? The answer was obvious. "It meant 'God help me'!" he said, and then realised he had given away a secret. After the bust up in 1975 my Isherwoods were put away. I never intended to part with one. There was one exception. A woman living in Orrell pestered me to buy Guardsman in the Rain. I relented and let her have it for £50. And like Isherwood, I told her that if she didn't like it she could return it. Two days later she did just that. That oil painting had originally belonged to a member of the Rathbone bread family. I'd bought it because I liked it and the moment I parted with it, I missed it. I was always thankful the big oil painting came back to me, the "rightful" owner. In the spring of 1989 1 was unaware that Jim Isherwood was ill. And my interest in his paintings was still so intense, I advertised to buy his work. No-one replied because Wiganers were hanging on knowing that they may, one day, be worth big cash. And that day, it seems, is almost here. Within months of his death, one sold at a Chester auction for £600. Isherwood would have been gratified. He wanted to live on through his work. On that funeral day, the cortege arrived on the dot. The Rector, Canon Malcolm Forrest, waited. There were few mourners. And, that was a shame because Isherwood had touched the lives of so many Wiganers. The woman he said was his second wife was there holding a rose. Gordon Isherwood, brother, who is his double, nodded to me as I waited to follow the official mourners. The address by the Rector was ever eloquent and he mentioned the tribute I'd written in the Wigan Observer. "A man as colourful as his canvases", I recall he said. It was true. Within the hour J. Lawrence Isherwood was buried alongside his Mother Lily in Wigan Cemetery. He left a legacy of fiery and energetic paintings which will live on in thousands of homes here and abroad. And it was only after Ishy died that many Wiganers admitted they'd always meant to buy a painting but never quite got round to it. Ah, isn't that the story of art?
POSTSCRIPT
In September 1990 31 lots of Isherwood's paintings were auctioned by Philips at Chester, bringing £6,000. A new auction record of £l,150.00 was set for one painting.
Geoffrey Shryhane
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3930443,00.html
guardian article




The following article appeared in the Manchester Evening News on Friday 16 June. I thought it would be of interest to you. Quote ... CALLS FOR LOWRY TO SHOWCASE UNSUNG GENIUS A woman who believes her brother in law was as talented as L S Lowry is battling to have his works hung in Salford's new £100m art center. Molly Isherwood has already written to bosses at the Lowry asking for a collection of J Lawrence Isherwood's paintings to be put on permanent display. Lowry was a keen supporter of struggling artists throughout his life. She is hoping Lowry's backing for Isherwood will strengthen her case. After his death, one of Isherwood's paintings was found hanging in his Mottram in Longdendale home. Molly, who has been championing her brother in law's case since his death 11 years ago, believes that one day his impressionistic paintings will be as prized as Salford artist Lowry's matchstick men. And she offered to loan a selection of his best canvasses to The Lowry. "Jim Isherwood really admired Lowry and was often is his company," said Molly, who lives in Appley Bridge, near Wigan. "Lowry acquired one of his paintings, Woman with Black Cat, in the early sixties, which he hung in the studio-workroom at his home. "He never took it down and it was there when Lowry died in 1976. Lowry always bought pictures by struggling artists, remembering the day he too struggled." Molly's enthusiasm for her brother in law's works is shared by BBC weather presenter Diane Oxbury and former Euro MP Lord Harrision of Chester. "I have been amazed by the range and quality of Jim's work", said Ms Oxbury, who recently acquired an Isherwood. "There's no doubt he should be seen by a wider audience." A spokesman for The Lowry said an exhibition by Isherwood would be considered. Unquote I think Molly Isherwood is doing a great job and deserves our support. Bye for now Ruth.




PHOTOS BY GEOFFREY SHRYHANE : geoffrey.shryhane-wigan@virgin.net .

I am very interested in your site. It actually was my mother who stood by his grave with a red rose. I have some fascinating photographs and correspondence from between them. Even I didn't know whether they were married or not. My mother certainly called herself Pat Isherwood and she told me that they were married. Anyway if anyone wishes to ask me any questions I'd be happy to get in touch.

I can be contacted at scotiamills@aol.com

Fraser White
I have just had a very interesting phone call with Molly Isherwood.

I sent her a copy of the web page so that we could confirm that the information was generally true. Molly was very pleased at the Interest in Jim.

Molly is organising an exhibition of Jim's work at The Mill House Gallery, Parbold near Southport on 18th November 2000.(also exhibition planned for nov 2002)

Molly confirmed the friendship between Jim & Lowry. They met "on & off." They had a joint exhibition where Lowry bought "Woman with cat" which he hung over the kitchen mantle piece.

Jim was photographed with Lowry and Jim sketched Lowry. Molly's family still have the photo.

Molly has lots of Jim's paintings and would be very pleased to let them go exhibitions. Jim also collected rents in his time (like Lowry) Lowry's Mother did not like Lowry's work and even turned them around so that they were facing the wall!

Molly was able to confirm that Jim always claimed that Prince Charles bought one of his paintings at university. reasonably, this was also confirmed when some one at an exhibition said that they had seen Prince Charles's Isherwood painting.


New contacts spring 2001
I am very interested in your site. It actually was my mother who stood by his grave with a red rose. I have some fascinating photographs and correspondence from between them. Even I didn't know whether they were married or not. My mother certainly called herself Pat Isherwood and she told me that they were married. anyway if anyone wishes to ask me any questions I'd be happy to get in touch.
I can be contacted at scotiamills@aol.com fraser white
I visited an art shop in Wigan last Thursday and was told by the proprietor that he had a visit from a gentleman who was writing a book about Lawrence Isherwood. Does anyone know anything about it? Please let me know if you have any information.
Best wishes Ruth
I tried to reply to the page of posts where i found this but couldn't manage it!
I have an isherwood too, and met him as a schoolgirl, as he lived near us and mum knew him. She told him I was a gifted artist and he offered to teach me privately, but what with him being odd it never happened sadly. i would like to include my painting in any future exhibitions but don't know how to go about it. i am interested in any news you have re Isherwood,
Catherine Keep in touch

I've only just come across the Isherwood page, which I find fascinating. When I was at Cambridge University in the late 60s, Isherwood used to come about twice a year to show his paintings and sell them to the undergraduates. He used the rooms of different undergraduates as his gallery and dealt from there. He used my room once or twice, and always paid his gallery owner in paintings. I thus have half a dozen oil on board paintings by him, mostly with his prices "50 gns" or whatever he fancied, written on the back. I was always less impressed by his 'Wigan Man' style (of which i have one) than his more impressionistic landscapes and seascapes. He was indeed a strange man to deal with, but always very friendly and entirely opposed to the art establishment, who he felt were ripping off the poor artists and the poor customers. As a poor customer, I could only agree! And by the way, it was at one such exhibition (not in my rooms) that the Prince of Wales bought an Isherwood. I remember Isherwood telling me that he now had royal patronage. I only wish I had known of the exhibition in Southport in November. I would have liked to have seen a major collection of his work, and also to get an idea of the current value of my 'dealer's fee' 30+ years ago.
Jonathan R


Hi, I was a photographer with the Southport visiter back through the 70's and then later with a freelance agency and had on many occasions been sent to take pix of Lawrence or "Jim" as he preferred to be known.
On one occasion in his rooms, at the Scarisbrick Hotel, he showed me a photograph of his mother and told me how he was worried that the photo was deteriorating. I offered to copy it and did so and later in the week took a print of the copy to him at the hotel. He was thrilled with the print and - as was usual for Jim - offered me any painting I wanted off his wall but this time he wouldn't take no for an answer. I eventually plumped for a small acrylic on hardboard titled - "Beryl at Birkenhead docks". He signed it in felt tip on the back with a message "To Tony with thanks" and then grumbled that it was only one of a handful of paintings he had done using acrylic paints as he didn't like them and what's more pointed out that it was one of the pieces he laughingly called his "blue period". Nevertheless when I offered to leave it with him he insisted that I took it saying if I didn't like it I could bring it back and pick another.
It languished in the attic until quite recently when I "rediscovered" it virtually being used as a "lid" on a small crate holding some old photographic equipment. It's quite a strange "impasto" picture and looks like it was done with a palette knife rather than a brush and I've no idea who "beryl" was or is. I still haven't framed it. Somehow it looks like it shouldn't be framed.

Anyway, I thought you might like this anecdote of Lawrence Isherwood's non materialistic way of life and his easy generosity.

Yours,

Tony Hall





HI,
I read your web page re J.L. Isherwood and thought i'd reply to you. I bought Isherwood's house in 1991 and have since that time collected several of his paintings and also have one sketch. It is reported that Lowry described Isherwood as his successor but I cannot corroborate this. I do not think it is in doubt that they were friends and I recently purchased a portrait of Lowry by isherwood. Isherwood drew upon a number of sources for his inspiration and often painted portraits from post-cards, pictures in magazines etc. However, he also painted live subjects and would ask people off the street if they would pose for him.
I am presently trying to classify the stylistic changes which occurred through his work which covered several decades. Some of his later poprtraits, parrticularly his portraits are very disturbing to look at.
I have built up a large catalogue of stories from people who knew him personally, including a neighbour in his nineties who knew him all his life. Most of the stories are anecdotal and very interesting.
I now tend to take most stories put around from his family with a large pinch of salt as they bear little relationship to the profile of the person that I have built up from talking to grass roots people who knew him. Anyway, I could write all night on this subject if I got carried away.
Yours faithfully,

Nic Shallicker




I have quite a few recollections of jim isherwood.
One vivid one when i was a young boy.I used to go to St Mary's school in Standishgate Wigan and went to my grandmothers for my dinner each day in Scholes,

One day I was returning to school walking down Greenough St where his mother had a shop. As I was walking by, Jim asked me to stop and admire a portrait of Tommy Steele (with two heads) ,and the next day the picture appeared in the Daily Mirror with the caption "Artist unveils portrait of pop sensation Tommy Steele ,young admirer amazed"

Years later I was working for a local Bookmaker Joe Kennedy in The Wiend,and Isherwood was a regular visitor to the office,which in those days before betting shops was a credit office. He liked a bet on the horses and more often than not when it came time to settle up he invariably paid his debts by way of a painting . I dread to think of how many of his works ended up being a nice comfy resting place for Joe's two Siamese cats.

A couple of years ago I came across a signed copy of Sir Gerald Nabarro's autobiography dedicated to Jim and Lily ,and guess what was inside....a couple of sketches and a photograph of one of his paintings in Venice I think.

Hope this is of interest Bernard Dowdall





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Thanks to Molly Isherwood.

Molly found an unknown set of water colours whilst sorting through old papers. Molly is now trying to organise an exhibition to be held in November. details will be here soon.







































































All the best Tony Seaton

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