TREVOR GREEN (b.1933)

'Whitehaven'

Acrylic on board, signed

Trevor Green was born in Hull in 1937, and when he was two years old the family moved to West Yorkshire, where he later attended Tadcaster Grammar School. having been accepted for higher education training in both drama and art, he opted for the latter and gained a degree in Industrial Design at Leeds College of Art, followed by a teaching diploma at Goldsmiths College, London University. After completing further postgraduate studies, Trevor began his teaching career in Headingly, Leeds in 1960. Six years later he and his wife Margaret moved to Cumbria following his appointment as Head of Art at Overend School, Whitehaven.

Trevor took great interest in extra-mural activities as well as teaching. By the early 1970's he was successfully combining his full-time school career with other projects, producing graphic design work for a number of clients; researching, writing and presenting arts programs with Border Television; producing cartoons and illustrative work for several local and national publications, as well as teaching adult education classes in both painting and pottery. Little time was left for painting, apart from the completion of occasional commissions.

In 1978 he moved from art teaching to Further Education, organizing and promoting adult classes and a range of community activities at Ehenside Further Education Centre at Cleator Moor. In 1980 Trevor was seconded by Cumbria Education Authority for two years to BBC Radio Cumbria where he produced and presented educational material including a weekly magazine program called Across the Board. Trevor continued at Ehenside for 5 years, then returned to full-time teaching as Director of Art & Design at St Bees School. He left in 1991 in order to become a full-time painter, illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist.

Trevor paints in watercolors and acrylics; having discovered in the 1960's that he was allergic to oil paint, he quickly adapted to acrylic, regarding it as a uniquely versatile medium, either used thinly like watercolor, or impasto, as with gouache and oils.

42" x 34"

108 cm x 86 cm

Stock no. MB-MG 624