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THE NORTERN SCHOOL-U.K. This is a page about an art group school and others that has existed since 1967 at least and is in turn part of the greater Northern School as in the book of Peter Davies .There was an idea for a group of three artist to form a group after visiting an exhibition by an established group of artist called the West Pennine Group in Central Lancs,U.K.Initially these three people exhibited in an interior design shop in area of above.One of the three Max Topping exhibited at the 1967 Lancashire Art Exhibition in Preston,Lancs. Below is a list of various artist connected to these who make up this section [North Western] of the Northern School-U.K. Bagshaw,Olive.Olive Bagshaw attended Salford Art School.She has had a painting in the National Collection on the B.B.C. web-page, she is featured on the internet under ART U.K. she did a portrait of Ronald Pollard featured in this list.At about 1970-71 she painted in the style of Monet but used the palette of Pissaro,her later paintings look like contextualised towards Lucien Freud..Has an artist she knew L.S.Lowery and Eric Thompson of Stockport College who was from Salford like his fellow worker Ron Thomas who was party to Peter Davies book A Northern School.Also when she was young she was involved in a motor cycle accident when young where she lost the use of her legs.She lives[d] in an haunted cottage near Chorley,Lancs. Cartmel,Lawrence.Lawrence Cartmell did an N.D.D.but as other artist could not make a living off art so he became a commercial artist at a local firm.He exhibited his painting of the Horse Bend at Lancashire Art Exhibition,Preston,Lancs 1967.He also painted and sold paintings of Sir Francis Chichester sailing Gipsy Moth I.V.in rough seas also the Cutty Sark,he had a painting of his local church on the internet in the near past. He was for years a partner in Preston Studios,Preson,Lancs with Brian Evans [a quite famous rock climber in his time] of Leeds Art School,he later renovated paintings and framed them.Lawrence Cartmell was also interested in agricultural carts and had one in his back garden. Garratt,Peter,Herber.Peter Garratt was from Lancaster and went to art school there.Peter Garratt is a brilliant art and did a commission for two copies of The Laughing Cavalier [in flat oil] for a bub sign in Liverpool.He also painted motor bikes and racing cars using various techniques.He later ran the interior design studio for Johnstone's Paints in Manchester. Hunt,David,was not a painter even he did the N.D.D. for it.He was an every weekend in the Lake District taking photographs with different cameras he used a plate camera,he was of course an expert on the Lakes.He worked with Lawrence Cartmell and Brian Evans in advertising for years. Miller,F,M.was educated at Manchester Art School where he did an N.D.D.He worked as interior design consultant for a few years,later he went freelance and made a success of it after an earlier attempt that made him take employment.He has his own web page called Michael Miller Fine Art.He has won awards for his equine paintings also Not The Turner Prize.He lives in rural Lancashire near to Sir Bradley Wiggins.He was originally a portrait artist which he still does and has sold to as well as others the local industrialist Deputy Lieutenants family.He has exhibited in the U.S.A. and London. Molloy,Derrick.He was originally an interior design consultant in Central Lancs. He then ran a storage and logistics depot.Later he turned freelance artist.,he was for a while artist in residence at Lewis's in Manchester.He sold paintings from another studio one to Stan Little.He sold prints of his painting of Trafalgar which was one of his favourite subjects.He is now deceased. Pollard,R.He started as an interior design consultant with some of the above.He did various modern style paintings which were bespoke to suit taste of the time.He is also a phgotographer and has taken over 20,000 photographs on film and thousands on digital.He studied design at Stockport College. Thomas,Ron.Like Eric Thomson a native of Salford and like him taught at Stockport College,he contributed to Peter Davies's A Northern School. Topping,R.Max.He started as an interior design consultant with others in this list.He has exhibited at Lancashire Art Exhibition,Preston,Lancs. His style is contemporary but is legible not abstract. Wilkinson,William [Bill].He has had various work and has worked as an interior design consultant.He has done art work Martin Kevill solicitor of Chorley,Lancs there was one painting of the well known local inn called the Bowling Green which was a difficult to do aerial perspective,he has done other free-lace work like this.He is a traditional artist. Wilkinson.Derrick.He was a teacher at Stockport College with Ron Thomas doing graphic art.He exhibited at Lancashire Art,Preston with a painting of a Unitarian Chapel.This was a chapel across the road from his classroom at college.He did a painting of a church at Liverpool which was on the internet but it is like the one at the beginning of the film A Kind Of Loving.He had one of his pictures sold after his death from the estate of Bob Monkhouse,it was of Yorkshire cottages in the style of a place called Heptonstall,Yorkshire.