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Biography
Isherwood was born and lived in Wigan, Lancashire. There he maintained a gallery where he painted and from which he sold his prolific output. He also travelled throughout the UK, holding innumerable 1-man shows. Where he travelled, he painted. As an artist, he was essentially a self-taught, intuitive person of considerable talent. He had the capacity to capture a site, a setting, a mood in a few quick brushstrokes. This he regularly did in exchange for lunch and beer money. Currently, Isherwood's work is undergoing a reassessment. His vivid use of colour, his capturing of passing dress and scenes of northern, industrial England and, at his best, the probing of the narrow line between abstractionism and realism in painting link Isherwood to contemporary and later artists like Colin Moss, John Bellany and John Houston. |
