Tuesday, 12 November 2024

John Emmerton 1924-2014

Who was John Emmerton?

Many new members have joined the group since Johns passing in 2014 so here is a little note about this founder member.

John G Emmerton was born in 1924 and served as a Leading Aircraftman with the RAF from 1940 to 1946. After leaving the service he joined the police force where he retired at the rank of inspector in 2005. John was a prolific artist and covered a wide range of subjects but his favourite genre was historical and present day buildings, both in and around his home and on holiday locations. As a long standing member of the former Farington Art Group John became a founder member of the new ‘Leyland Artists Group’ at its inception in 2011 and took pride in mentoring new artists and running children's art workshops in the summer at the local park. Upon his death in 2014 it was decided to create the “John Emmerton Trophy” in his honour which is awarded to the competition winner (by votes) at the end of each year and is presented at the groups end of year Christmas Party.

We present some of his work.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 December 2024 at 16:40

    These are all stunning. I only wish I could have met him

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  2. Anonymous3 January 2026 at 19:00

    I have one of his paintings on my living room wall. Leyland Cross.

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  3. Anonymous3 January 2026 at 20:10

    Really talented, glad I got to see these today though a bit sad to see how Leyland lost its charm in favour of looking like every other generic town it is still nice to see how things used to be. I especially loved his old Leyland cross picture I can still remember it looking kinda like that back in the 90s when you would still see people stop there with their horses to get them a drink.

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  4. Anonymous3 January 2026 at 21:24

    Hi everyone, swing these comments reduced me to tears, he would have been overjoyed with the positive and kind comments, he was a loving husband and the best dad I could have asked for, this means the world to me so a big thankyou to everyone x

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