Graham Pirt
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I trained in art at Northumberland College between 1966 and 1969. During the following period, whilst a teacher, I worked at Wallsend Youth Centre doing set design for productions, along with some at the Newcastle Playhouse Workshop. I taught art and pottery evening classes at South Shields Marine and Technical College, as well as screen printing posters for Bailey's Night Clubs (later to become a manager with them).  When I moved to Scarborough I ran a sign writing business. Many years later, back in education, I was a tutor on the Humberside 6th form visits to Venice and Paris. Later I ran painting holidays in Tuscany where I rented great acommodation for the participants and took them to great sights such as San Gimignano, Certaldo, Volterra and F;orence. Since then I have painted, on and off, until I moved to Leicestershire where, having a studio - (and more time!) I have worked continually seeking to find my preferred style once again. My membership on the committee of the Leicester Sketch Club has helped me get fully involved with my work.
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The first oil painting I ever did - when I was 14, 1961
Early college work in 1967

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Early College painting (1966) on a trip to Blyth Docks - commonly referred to, by my tutor, as, 'God's catherine wheel.'!

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Another College work - Still life 1969

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Figure Study 1969

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Devil Water, Northumberland, 1974 
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Sketch of the Trapeze Artists (1969)

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Vendee Coastline with Umbrella - 1984
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French Village in the Poitou-Charentes Region, Watercolour, 1989
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Breton Cycle Race, Ink & Watercolour, 1989
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Still Life in a Room, Watercolour, 1990
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The Art Room Door, Watercolour & Collage, 1990
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Fishing boat at Shoreham, Watercolour, 1990

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Deckchair on Brighton Pier, Watercolour, 1990
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Waterlilies, Watercolour, 1990
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African Sculpture - from masks in the Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 1994
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Door in Venice, Screen print & Gouache, 1992
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Venice Doorway, Watercolour, 1992
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Door in Venice, Acrylic, 1992
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Torcello Cathedral, Venice, Watercolour, May 1992
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Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, Watercolour Sketch, 1992
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Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice, Ink & Gouache, 1992
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Venice Collage, May 1992
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More reflections of Venice, Oil, 1992
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Tuscany near Certaldo, watercolour, 1994
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Tuscan Landscape, Watercolour, 1994
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Turning Figure (2), Oil on Canvas. 2017
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Model Rising, Oil on Canvas, 2017
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Original water colour sketch for, ' Watching the Breton Cycle Race' , July 1989
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,Watching a Breton Cycle Race, 1994
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Megan and Daisy ( Watercolour 2006)
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Crouching Figure (After a sketch by Giacometti), May 2017
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Three Graces (from a life drawing), May 2017
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Sentosa Marina, Acrylic on Canvas 2016
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Sentosa Island, Singapore, 2016
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Flamborough Head, Oil on Canvas, January 2017
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Figure Study (Seated) - Acrylic on canvas, June 2017
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Figure Study (Standing) - Acrylic on Canvas, June 2017
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Still Life with Blue Jug - Acrylic on Canvas, September 2019

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Still Life with Walnuts - Acrylic on Canvas, January 2020

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Whitby, After the Storm, September 2017
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Bamburgh Castle, March 2020
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Dawn over Hadrian's Wall, April 2020
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Goole Landscape, April 2020
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Portrait of Megan, May 2020
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Bottles from the bar ( after Manet's 'Bar at The Folies Bergere' ) , Oil, 2017 (Plus the original drawing of the abstraction of the bottles on the bar - done in 1990)
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14th century African Sculpture to ward off disease, Oil and Watercolour Collage, June 2020
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Turning figure, June 2020
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Trapeze, (after Max Beckmann, 1923),  Oil and Watercolour Collage, July 2020
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199 Steps, Whitby, Oil, August 2020
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Bayard's Cove, Commissioned work - Oil, October 2020
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Still Life with black background, Acrylic, Nov 2020
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Dancer, Acrylic, December 2020
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Beacon Hill, Leicestershire - Acrylic, Nov 2020
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Portrait,  Acrylic, January 2021
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Christian & Henry Haiku Portrait. Acrylic, January 2021
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Mountsorrel Lock, Watercolour, February 2021
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Whitby Abbey, Watercolour, February 2021
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Mountsorrel Lock, Watercolour, February 2021
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Villajoyosa, Spain, Oils, February 2021
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Flamborough, Acrylic on Canvas, March 2021 - From a photograph by Dave Zdanowicz
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Finistere Lighthouse, Oil on Canvas, March 2021
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Lindisfarne with Derelict Boats, Acrylic on Canvas, March 2021
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Still Waters, Acrylic on Canvas, March 2021
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Volterra, Tuscany, Pen and Watercolour from a sketch in the early 2000s
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View of Skiddaw, Acrylic on Canvas, May 2021
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Simonside Hills, Rothbury, Acrylic on board, August 2021
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Sidmouth Beach, Acrylic on canvas, August 2021
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Whitby Abbey, Oil on Canvas, December 2021
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Koh Samui, Pen & Watercolour December 2021
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Fishing boats on Koh Samui,- Water colour, Thailand, January 2022
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Happy in the studio!
...and at Sky Landscape Artist of the Year, June 2017
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