Personalised Gifts - Caricature

Personalised Gifts - CaricatureBob is also an accomplished caricaturist. Utilising his superb pen and ink technique he can provide a uniquely humorous and personalised likeness that provides a magnificent gift for a special occasion, business or retirement presentation, anniversary or birthday. It is also unique and personal to the recipient. Notable recipients include David Walliams, Bill Bryson, Tony Blair, David Milliband, Alan Bennett, Jo Brand, Sarah Millican, Sting, Sam

A miners pay depended on the amount of full tubs of coal they filled and the boys were often beaten if they didn’t supply enough tubs

This was 1956 before helmets and safety boots were compulsory

The injured man was then made as comfortable as possible on an ambulance tram and hauled the three miles to the shaft bottom by a team of volunteers where a nurse or medic would be on hand to accompany him up the shaft to the medical centre to the Ingham Infirmary by the awaiting NCB ambulance

In this painting I have tried to depict people in their little boxes getting on with their lives oblivious to what is going on to the right

"John the Gibber was a smuggler who betrayed his fellow smugglers to the Customs and Revenue

On Tuesday 2nd of April 1907 Danial Mark Bence got lost in Whitburn Colliery and starved to death

Fish and Chips captures the famous landmarks of South Shields from La Strada to Name Rock

The fillers (my fathers job) then shovelled the coal onto the conveyor belt that ran the length of the coal face

"The lowest seam I ever worked on was at Usworth Colliery training face

Signed print 59cm x 25cm

both insisted on wearing casual footwear

todays pee could become tomorrows tears