Brian West http://www.brianwestart.com The website and blog of artist, Brian West. Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:46:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Bert Williams Goalkeeper Club http://www.brianwestart.com/bert-williams-goalkeeper-club/ http://www.brianwestart.com/bert-williams-goalkeeper-club/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:01:26 +0000 admin http://www.brianwestart.com/?p=865

Bert Williams Goalkeeper Club

Back Row :  Phil Parkes, Wayne Hennessey, Fred Davies

Front Row : Gordon Banks, Bert Williams, Peter Bonetti

I was invited recently to a special party at Molineux to celebrate the 90th birthday of my  -  and doubtless many others  -  boyhood idol, the Wolves & England goalkeeper Bert Williams MBE.

I was commissioned to paint an assembled group including England World Cup favourites Gordon Banks and Peter Bonetti. I titled the work ’The Bert Williams Goalkeeper Club’  but rather than paint them wearing their lounge suits, thought it more intriguing to portray these legends in the playing strip of their day  …  from Bert’s heavy woolly England jersey of 1950 and Gordon’s famous 1970 blue sweater up to Wayne’s sponsor-bearing club shirt of today   -   a 60yrs era of fashion and goalkeeper chic.

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Gavia Wilkinson-Cox

Dragon Class sailor Gavia Wilkinson-Cox receives her commissioned painting at Cowes  –  an action montage depicting her sailing career achievements in her boat Jerboa GBR 716.

]]> http://www.brianwestart.com/gavia-wilkinson-cox/feed/ 0 100 Million Euro Art Theft in Paris. http://www.brianwestart.com/100-million-euro-art-theft-in-paris/ http://www.brianwestart.com/100-million-euro-art-theft-in-paris/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 11:27:59 +0000 admin http://www.brianwestart.com/?p=690 100 Million Euros (£85.4million) worth of paintings were stolen from the Musée d’Art Moderne, in Paris. This included paintings such as ‘Le Pigeon aux petit pois’ by Pablo Picasso.

View the full article at The Times.

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Read the full article at Wolverhampton Express & Star.

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