Byline: LINDA RICHARDS
Picture two shows the Lionhearts of Northumberland working on a sawmill. The photograph was taken on March 22, 1943, and shows three women carrying timber.For his portraits of famous folk and wildlife scenes, he welds together ideas from numerous photographs, then puts his own stamp on them.There's even his own version of the Battle of Trafalgar and a large frieze of the old Redheugh Bridge being dismantled in the 1980s.ICONS Jeffrey Stamp's paintings of Marilyn Monroe, John F, Kennedy and John Wayne ART AND SOUL Jeffrey Stamp at Saltwell Towers in Gateshead's Saltwell Park. His work is on show thereIn the background can be seen the new concrete bridge which was opened by Princess Diana in 1984.The company supplies high-visibility and flame-retardant (FR) fabrics based on aramid (DuPont's Nomex) fibres, and aramid/Lenzing FR and modacrylic/cotton blends in luminous yellow, orange or red. At Techtextil (Frankfurt, Germany, 24-26 May 2011; Hall 3.1 C81) it will exhibit several new products:He's exhibited around the North East and often does bespoke commissions."My dad was very good at sketching and that's what started me off," he said."A guy who goes to all the James Bond conventions asked me to do a portrait of five James Bonds - Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosman. He said he was going to try and get it signed by each of them. He rang me to say George Lazenby had signed it but I don't know if the others did or what he did with it."One of those was quite unusual.Jeffrey works in an attic studio at his home in Bensham, Gateshead, and spends more than 100 painstaking hours working on each of his paintings.* an FR textile made of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibre (Unitika's Mewlon);Our next picture (picture three) was taken in July 1943 and shows women, complete with face shields, being trained as welders. It was reported that after intensive training they would be sent out to shipyards and engineering works to help in turning out weapons and ships."There's something to suit everyone's tastes," said the dadof-two and granddad. "Portraits, floral studies, local scenes, wildlife and cartoons."*an FR fabric that the company claims has a strength in excess of that required by the European standard EN 11612;For further information, contact: Wolfgang Frohn, Pro-Belting International GmbH & Co KG, Hofer Stra[beta]e 41-43, Schauenstein, D-95197, Germany. Tel: 49 (9252) 9911-19. Fax: 49 (9252) 9911-11. Email: wolfgang.frohn@pro-belting.com; http://www.pro-belting.com* protection for welders that meets the standards of EN 11612 (A1, B1, C1, D1, E3, F1) as well as EN 11611 class 2. I;"I still love painting and I hope this exhibition is an inspiration to other artists to exhibit their work," he added."I used to watch him, then my mother bought me my first set of oil paints at 14. One of the teachers at school noticed that I was quite talented and they put me forward for doing the murals for the school plays. And I progressed from there."
ICONS Jeffrey Stamp's paintings of Marilyn Monroe, John F, Kennedy and John Wayne ART AND SOUL Jeffrey Stamp at Saltwell Towers in Gateshead's Saltwell Park. His work is on show there
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