The Blog
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Below are a list of links that we have compiled and are reciprocated by the website owners. Some of the links featured here are, affiliated sites, some may be galleries others may simply be links we find useful. This page will be added to on a periodic basis – we hope you find it useful.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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