Frank Gordon, born 1943, studied at Bolton College of Art from 1958 to 1963 before entering art teaching. During this period he gained an Honours Degree from the Open University, an Advanced Diploma in Art Education from Bretton Hall College and a Masters Degree in Art from Leeds Metropolitan University. He left teaching in 1995 and subsequently moved to the Yorkshire Dales. This enabled him to indulge his related passions of painting and hill walking, with the majority of his work coming from an experience of the landscape derived from his many years as a walker and backpacker. Most subject matter now relates to scenes within a few miles of his home, especially the Three Peaks area of Ribblesdale; recent work seeks to concentrate on the tension between the recall of intense first-hand experience and more painterly concerns of colour and form. He works chiefly in oil and acrylics, enjoying the varied qualities that each brings to the picture-making process. Directly observed drawings are supplemented with photographs; these, together with memory and imagination, are combined in the studio in the making of the finished work.Frank, who has exhibited widely, is a member of Leeds Fine Art Club and has featured in numerous art publications and illustrated articles on Yorkshire. He frequently gives talks to art clubs and societies and has taught painting in Tuscany, the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.