The Artist
Trevor Goodwin
was brought up on Langley Estate in Middleton in the mid-sixties,
quite a tough area according to Trevor. Of his education he says:
“The
only subject I liked at high school was art, which was only
spoilt by the art teacher who called everybody "Rover"!
Political correctness had not been invented yet."
Trevor's first
ever painting was of a Border Collie which he made for his grandmother
when he was just twelve years old, but as Trevor says:
"Looking
back, it wasn’t that great, but I was hooked I just loved
the whole process. Can one get addicted to pure turpentine and
linseed oil?"
It was then
that he decided that he wanted to be a commercial artist when
he left school. However, that was quickly 'undecided', when a
fitter who worked with his father commented that ”he will
never make an artist 'cos he’s left-handed”!
Is there such
a thing as left-handsiam?
The qualifications
he didn’t manage to achieve at school were made up for by
his pure enthusiasm for his unadulterated love of art.
Although he
has sold many paintings Trev still gets emotional when a total
stranger likes his work enough to pay their hard earned money
for a painting. "I consider it a great honour”,
says Trev.
Trevor's son
Simon says of his father:
"He
is quite bohemian and off the wall; he wears a floppy hat, rides
a motorbike, has a parrot called Clapton and paints his toenails
black (for no other reason than he can do).
His work is very individual the black background produces an
almost chiaroscuro effect. He is self-taught has shown and sold
his work in galleries, through music shops, has appeared in
local newspapers and just recently was asked to appear on BBC
radio Manchester".
