Authentic, Detailed, Nostalgic Trevor Mitchell Jigsaw Puzzles UKWarm, nostalgic puzzles which capture the feel of a bygone era. Wonderful Trevor Mitchell jigsaw puzzles UK have enormous attention to detail with countryside scenes, trains, cars, military vehicles, fashions and even the cinema listing, The pictures are correct down to the finest detail. Some examples of Trevor Mitchell jigsaw puzzles UK are: “Passage of Time” – showing a high street at different times in history. I love this one as it has, for example, in the 1930s part an MG C type Midget, an Albion bus and an Austin six car. All of these exactly as was driven at the time. The cinema listing, the cars, the fashions, the colours all exactly correct for the time. “Pitching In” – which depicts a farming family at work. “The Village Farrier” – showing a Farrier at work in a typical village scene with a farmer and his sheep and a horse and cart delivering milk! Another detailed and warm Trevor Mitchell jigsaw puzzles UK. Trevor very kindly took time to answer our interview questions on what motivates and inspires him, providing details too as to how you can contact him. He does commissions too! Some great insight into the inspiration for Trevor Mitchell Jigsaw Puzzles UK. The Interview
Please provide any details you wish on DOB, Place of birth, Training and qualifications Born on 13 July 1959 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Trained in Art & Design at Bradford Art College, worked as an Art Director in advertising agencies in London and Yorkshire before going freelance in 1986 to spend more time painting and illustrating.
Where do you live and work?
I work at home in Shipley, West Yorkshire, in a small, untidy studio which I share with my daughters’ pet rabbit, who hops in and out of the garden to trip me up as I step back to look at my painting.
I note this is nostalgic art, are there any other areas? Well, I paint anything I’m commissioned to paint, but my own choice is to paint nostalgic scenes of rural Britain, usually set on farms or in attractive villages. I also like painting transport subjects as I have always been fascinated by steam trains and vintage vehicles. Is there a period in time you especially love? It varies. My daughters are growing up fast and, lovely as they are now, I already feel nostalgic about a period ten to fifteen years ago when they were small. But the period I like to paint most of is the last few decades before I was born, the 30s, 40s and 50s. I find researching this period most enjoyable, partly because it covers the memories of my father and grand parents, gone but fondly remembered. What else inspires you to paint? I have always been fascinated by photos of bygone eras, particularly old street scenes and railway photos. I would give anything for a time machine in which I could go back and explore places which would be familiar yet so different, and to ride steam trains on branch lines that have disappeared. I can’t, so the next best thing is to recreate them on canvas. 3. Techniques Are there any particular techniques you use. EG for the drawing and colour? Composition is everything, if you don’t get that right you will not have a good picture no matter how well you paint. So I take plenty of time composing a picture to try and make it pleasing to the eye as well as interesting, with a story to tell. I have to know where every element of a picture is going before I start painting.
3. Kids Any tips you could give kids? My own 4 year old just loves to draw and paint. With so many electronic distractions nowadays, it’s important that kids don’t miss out on the simple pleasure of being creative with something as low tech as a crayon and paint brush. If they have a flair for it, they will get great pleasure from it, particularly if their efforts earn them praise.
4. Favourite jigsaw puzzle picture, of your own, of another artist? My favourite pictures, jigsaw or otherwise, are those that draw your eye in and take your imagination for a walk. These are the type of pictures I like looking at by other artists and painting myself.
5. What got you into providing art for jigsaw puzzles I wanted to paint for a living and had to find people who would pay me.
6. Do you do jigsaw puzzles yourself? I’m too busy painting nowadays, but painting a picture for a puzzle has the same therapeutic effect that doing a puzzle has. By mother does a lot of puzzles and I give her all my samples. If she’s doing one when I visit her, I end up helping her and I can get hooked.
If so, what type of picture? Usually my own – it’s a strange feeling putting puzzle pieces together of a picture you’ve already done once with a brush!
7. What manufacturers have you worked with?
Gibsons, House of Puzzles, JR and
Ravensburger. Yes, I take commissions. I prefer to work in oils, but I do water colours if asked. Most of my pictures you see reproduced as puzzles are also available as art prints and greeting cards. You can see them on my website at nostalgicart which also has my contact details.
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