TALENTED artists from across the district, including some whose skills have been self-taught, are showing their works on Bradford’s Big Screen this month as a project to provide outdoor gallery space continues.

The Not Just Hockney exhibition shows work by five different artists each month, with images being screened daily in City Park.

It is supported by Bradford City of Film and is curated by arts enthusiast Colin Neville, whose aim is to support and promote local artists and their work.

He said: “There is a wide range of talent represented, and their art appeals to a wide range of people.

“Artists take a big risk by going freelance. It’s always been tough making a living through art, but it’s especially difficult in these austerity times.

“They need all the support they can get.”

David Wilson, director of Bradford UNESCO City of Film, said: “We’re delighted to be supporting five more artists in November as part of the Not Just Hockney daily exhibition on the Big Screen.

“We’re particularly proud to be showing work from artists who are self taught as this is an incredible artistic achievement and really demonstrates the huge array of talent in the district.”

He added: “Every month we have a different Not Just Hockney exhibition featuring everything from fine art to ceramics, which really adds to our offer on the Big Screen and gives a flavour of the sheer amount of artistic talent in the area.”

This month’s five artists are:

David Worsley is a potter who trades as Dove Street Pottery from a workshop in Shipley.

His hand-made ceramics have been sold by John Lewis and at craft shops and galleries, including at the Tate Gallery and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

He was nominated by Real Homes as one of the Top 10 British designers to watch in 2016.

Daniel Shiel is a photographic artist and archaeologist based in the Keighley area.

He uses his photographs as materials for creating urban landscapes of an often surreal character.

He shows his work regularly in Yorkshire at Skipton and Saltaire and has also shown in the Midlands and London, and overseas in Mallorca and the USA.

Debbi Johnson is a self-taught artist with a studio in Silsden.

She works mainly in watercolour, pastel and pencil and has a particular interest in animal art, although her subject range includes human portraiture and landscapes.

Debbi has exhibited across the North of England and was voted Favourite Artist by visitors to a British Society of Painters exhibition at Ilkley.

Craig Everett is a self-taught urban pop artist, who lives in Thackley.

His paintings and stencils are often inspired by people and places from his youth on the Thorpe Edge estate in Bradford in the 1970s and 1980s.

His work is exhibited and sold under the label Vandalart at the Rogue Gallery in Eccleshill, Bradford.

Jenni Smith is an Ilkley based textile artist and tutor.

She makes and sells textile prints and hangings, greetings cards, and stationery.

Jenni also teaches textile arts, including sewing and embroidery, and organises local exhibitions of her own and her students’ work.

Mr Neville, an amateur arts enthusiast and retired lecturer from Silsden, added that Craig Everett and Debbi Johnson are self-taught artists.

“They have both taken a big risk by leaving mainstream occupations to do what they really want to do in life, that is create art,” he added.

Images of all five artists’ work are being shown on the Big Screen every day this month at 12.30pm.

For more information, visit bradford-city-of-film.com/big-screen.