Trevor Rushton Abstrct Oil Painting any info?

Thickly painted abstract, signed Rushton to the front and signed , dated and titled to the rear. The frame is in keeping for the period. Google throws up no results, hopefully someone out there knows something.

Love that great colours, cant help you though

(applied with palette knife and looks like mills to me)

street lights and a city landscape

There looks a reflection

rain/sea

Its the 1957 nuclear fire at Sellafield sorry, Windscale.

whatever. I like it,
it looks hot : )
so cool

It's a good painting and I'm very surprised that I can't find any mention of him. He's not in Artists in Britain since 1945, which has details of around 14,500 different artists.

Yes I was surprised when I couldn't find any info, hopefully getting the name online will get some attention from a relative as has happened before.

Hi

Very briefly because you might not even use this forum anymore. This painting was by my Dad. Pleaae feel free to ask for more details. Cheers Shelley.

Welcome Shelley,
Dave is still a regular visitor to the forum, please tell us about your father as all info here is used as a free reference resource

and do you know if it is a city landscape?

Hi thank you for the warm welcome. I am afraid he wasn't a well known painter but studied at the Leeds College of art and used to go drinking with Jacob Kramer.
Teaching art was his profession and he also designed signage and material for pubs as well as graphic design. We have a lot of his paintings and sketchbooks and work of his students too. He loved painting in oils and I would often watch him. He also worked in lead and wood. We will dig some photographs out if they could be of interest.

please do I went to leeds and the jacob kramer college so am very interested

Great info, thank you for sharing

ShelleyKay990 wrote:Hi

Very briefly because you might not even use this forum anymore. This painting was by my Dad. Pleaae feel free to ask for more details. Cheers Shelley.

hi thanks for getting in touch. It's finally solved a mystery, the painting is far too good to have not been identified. It would be really good to see some more are your fathers work if it would be possible to post some pictures.

now we know he was at Leeds I suggest it may have been painted from the roof terrace of the art college

did you spend much time up there Paul ?