In Arts News and Review, Mervyn Levy (author of books on L S Lowry and his greatest champion) said of Isherwood’s third London show: “Mr Lawrence Isherwood, a Northerner, is a painter of considerable energy, working often with consummate brilliance, in the established Expressionist style. For him, the swift, unimpeded flow of paint from the - Click here to read more

  If people would not take trouble to look at his paintings, then Isherwood would take his art to the people. In his lifetime, he held around 200 one-man shows all over the country, and his favourite “exhibition-sale” cities were London, Oxford and Cambridge. Over many weeks he would create hundreds of works of art - Click here to read more

In the early 1970s, Jim Isherwood was delighted and couldn’t wait to tell anyone who would listen that the TV people would soon be arriving in Wigan to make a film about his life and his art. It was true. The BBC producer Douglas Boys, who liked the artist’s work, had come up with the - Click here to read more

Lily Isherwood doted on her sons Jim and Gordon. But she was devastated when, as the war came to and end, the sons married two sisters. She was so distraught at the thought that her boys leaving home, she refused point blank to attend the wedding. She stayed inside the walls of 151 Wigan Lane - Click here to read more

No-one knows more about the late James Lawrence Isherwood than Molly Isherwood, his sister-in-law. She knew him as a close family member for half a century and since his death in 1989 she’s made it her ambition to promote his work and ensure that he wasn’t a forgotten genius. Isherwood was a self-obsessed and selfish - Click here to read more

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Lawrence Isherwood, the artist who has died aged 72, was driven by his muse to abandon a career as a cobbler. To begin with, he painted the woman of his native Wigan but he later found a more lucrative market with imaginary nude studies of such public figures as Barbara Castle, Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of - Click here to read more

Isherwood’s greatest hero was his fellow painter L S Lowry. He made it his business to find out where Lowry was appearing and then appeared in the audience. Jim Isherwood was as pleased as punch when he discovered that one of his oil paintings – Minnie Small with Black Cat – had been bought by - Click here to read more

Throughout his life Isherwood courted publicity. Nothing pleased him more than seeing his photograph staring out of some newspaper or other. In dawned on him in the early days of his career that the papers were not interested in him – “local artists” were two a penny. If they wanted to have news of their - Click here to read more

 Wigan journalist Geoffrey Shryhane was Isherwood’s agent for a few months in 1973 and 1974. Here he tells of the trials and tribulations of a friendship with “Ishy.” I first met Isherwood in the early 60s, soon after I began as a young reporter on the Observer. With my colleague Allan Rimmer, we bumped into - Click here to read more

From time to time we sell top quality J Lawrence Isherwood paintings. They come with a Certificate Of Authenticity signed by the artist’s sister-in-law Mrs Molly Isherwood. Keep an eye open on eBay, any we offer will be marked artbyisherwood. We have a delightful landscape titled ‘Hampshire’, shown below, being auctioned on ebay at the moment. If you - Click here to read more

 Interestingly Isherwood wasn’t too shy of the film cameras as I’m sure you’ve already read in the feature Isherwood. The Lost Film  sadly this archive film footage was lost years ago. However… Art By Isherwood is proud to have been given access to some very rare film and audio material that captures Isherwood with his family and - Click here to read more

When not painting in oil or creating water colours, Isherwood sketched. Any scrap of paper would do – or the back of an envelope or on his cigarette packet. The need to capture life in a few deft strokes was obsessive. Often the sketches would be filed away to be used in the creation of - Click here to read more