STRIKING images of land and sea are among the latest artwork to appear on Bradford’s big screen as part of an ongoing exhibition.

The digital display is part of the Not Just Hockney project set up by art enthusiast Colin Neville to showcase the work of local artists.

In addition to the project’s website, a regular exhibition sees artwork featured on the City Park screen in a daily presentation.

Throughout September and October, the theme is Land and Sea, with recognisable locations across Yorkshire among the subjects featured.

Mr Neville told the Telegraph & Argus: “Artists have been drawn to paint the Yorkshire countryside for over 200 years now. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the professional artists Thomas Girtin and Joseph Turner both painted scenes in Wharfedale and Turner visited a friend and patron at Farnsley Hall, above Otley, regularly over a 25 year period, painting scenes across the district and Northern England.

“From the mid 19th century professional artists have also been attracted to the rugged Yorkshire coast. The artist, Robert Roe, for example, created a series of paintings in the 1880s depicting shipwrecks at Scarborough that were reproduced in prints and hung on thousands of walls in homes up and down the country.

“Such was the attraction of the Yorkshire coast to artists that an artist community also sprung up in the early 20th century at Staithes. One of them, the artist, Laura Knights, was completely fascinated by the villagers, their isolation, austere way of life, and the changing seascape seen through her window, and particularly the savagery of the Yorkshire coast in winter.

“Today, local artists are attracted to the sea and the landscape for exactly the same reasons as their predecessors The stunning regional landscape, and the British coastline, with its changing moods and colours, is the ongoing inspiration for the six professional artists featured on the Big Screen - and many more who live locally or elsewhere.

“For example, in recent years, our own Bradford-born David Hockney produced some marvellous paintings - I think some of his best work to date - of the Yorkshire countryside during his time living at Bridlington.

“The interesting thing for me is how each of the six Big Screen featured artists interpret what they see and have created images that are identifiably their own - in their own unique and individual styles. Allan Brack is also inspired by the poetry and lyrics of Leonard Cohen, and the titles of his seascapes pay tribute to Cohen’s artistry with words.”

The six artists involved in this next presentation are:

Jacky Al-Samarraie is a graphic designer and founder of The Art Rooms in Saltaire, where she designs a wide range of prints, cards, stationery, and homeware. Her distinctive landscape designs are characterised by silhouettes of trees, people, or man-made features juxtaposed with blocks of colour.

Allan Brack lives locally with his partner and fellow artist, Mandy Farrar. The sea is a recurring theme in Allan’s work and his recent paintings have been inspired and taken their titles from the poetry and lyrics of Leonard Cohen. Allan’s artwork has been exhibited regionally, including at the University of Bradford.

The local artist, Martin Cosgrove, originally studied medicine and trained and worked as a doctor. However, after he retired he studied fine art and printing and now draws predominantly with charcoal and pencil, and paints, mainly in oils, in an expressive, often abstract way.

Clare Haley was born in Bradford. She worked for Hallmark Cards in a range of creative roles, but become a full-time freelance artist in 2010. Her current work is inspired by the landscape and big skies of northern England, particularly Yorkshire, and her paintings have now been widely exhibited.

Sarah Harris is a screen print artist from Shipley. In 2013 Sarah won the Curzon Exhibition Award at the New Lights art prize for artists from Northern England, which led to a solo show in Ripon. Sarah’s work has since been exhibited widely across the region, including solo shows at Cartwright Hall and Bradford Cathedral.

Greg Learmonth is a largely self-taught professional painter, living in the Ilkley area. His subjects, although including townscape and still life, are predominantly of landscape and coastal scenes, particularly of the Yorkshire region. He is the chairman and treasurer of the Burley-in-Wharfedale Art Club and exhibits his impressionistic artwork at venues across the region.

The Not Just Hockney exhibition runs every day at 12.30pm on the big screen which is run by Bradford UNESCO City of Film.

The website itself features more than 400 local professional artists, balanced between past and present artists of all genres, including painters, textile designers, sculptors, print makers, graphic design, social-documentary photographers, jewellery designers, and those that use a multi-media approach to creating artwork.

The regular big screen exhibition is a chance for a small selection of those artists to showcase their work to a wider audience.

More information can be found on the project by visiting notjusthockney.info.