A TELEGRAPH & Argus article has helped to reunite an art student and his tutor - six decades after they last saw each other.

Nicholas Bielby, now 79, managed to track down artist Roy Bell, 88, after spotting an article in the Telegraph & Argus about the Not Just Hockney project.

The initiative, and its associated website, shine a spotlight on artists past and present who were born, work or who have made their home in the Bradford district - which boasts David Hockney as one of its most famous sons.

As part of that, work from various artists is displayed on the big screen in City Park.

Mr Bielby, who now lives in Frizinghall, said: "I read an article in the Telegraph & Argus, about these Bradford artists on the screen.

"Among the names was a Roy Bell, so I thought 'that was my old art teacher' in Huddersfield.

"I looked him up online, to see whether it was him. I didn't realise he had been brought up in Bradford.

"I contacted the Bradford City of Film people and said 'could you put me in touch?"

"I hadn't seen Roy from 1958 until today."

Mr Bielby moved to Bradford in 1966, working at the former Margaret McMillan College for a number of years.

His art training is something which has stayed with him as he now publishes his own poetry magazines and books and uses his own illustrations to adorn the covers.

Meanwhile, Mr Bell, who was born in the Bolton Road area of Bradford, moved out of Yorkshire to Hertfordshire in 1963.

During his time as Art Master at Huddersfield College he established evening art classes for local adults at an abandoned primary school in Kirklees.

On moving away from the area, he took up the role of senior advisory art teacher to the Hertfordshire local education service and was later appointed art advisor for Cambridgeshire, a post he held for the remainder of his career.

A special presentation of Mr Bell's work was displayed on the screen for the pair's meeting, which marked the first time he had properly been back to Bradford for some years. A lot of his work reflects his West Yorkshire heritage.

Mr Bielby said: "Until I looked on the website, I didn't know what he had been doing. It has been absolutely lovely - and to meet Roy's two children as well. It really has been super."

Standing in a vastly different Bradford city centre to the one he once knew, Mr Bell said his "heart and soul" remain in Bradford and that he had fond memories of his time at the college.

He added: "It has been very moving. It was amazing, the past coming up."