William Parker 1922- 2017, Keighley & Haworth

About the Artist

William (Bill) Parker 1922-2017

Keighley born William (Bill) Parker had shown artistic promise from an early age and studied the subject at Keighley Mechanic’s Institute, but, as with many of our artists, the need to earn a living led him to other work; in his case in a local mill. War service with the Chindits in Burma was followed by work in India until the partition, when he returned to live in Haworth. Painting was fitted around his working day until retirement in1984 when he turned more seriously to his paintings. There’s a homely charm to his work, depicting as is does the landscape he loved.