Eric Tucker, who lived and died in Warrington, created over 500 rosy paintings of everyday life, as nephew Joe relates in The Secret Painter ...

Eric Tucker – the uncle of this book's author, Joe Tucker – was a labourer from Warrington, Lancashire. A bachelor who spent ...

Dozens of the paintings ... Stephen Lowry, an English artist in the 20th century. He was born in Stretford, a market town in Greater Manchester, and his paintings mainly depicted industrial ...

Eric's "vignettes of working-class life" – scenes from ... Eric's paintings have been likened to those of L.S. Lowry, who was famed for his depictions of the industrial North, said Michael ...

Unprecedented is an overused word, but even world-weary Dáil veterans were hard-pressed to find another way to describe the chaotic scenes ... Michael Lowry, the non-titular leader of the ...

With a total population of about 57.7 million, England is the largest country in the United Kingdom, which also includes Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The country is home to cities rich in ...

Made over about 60 years, there were portraits and landscapes, but most of all, scenes of ordinary working-class life in the industrial north. Included in the book are some of his paintings of ...