He was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire and trained at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. Later, he acquired an Honours degree (First Class) through the Open University.
He has explored many different media over the years but now works mainly in water-colour, pastel, black and white engraving and coloured linocut techniques.
Trevor was a full-time school-teacher for 33 years. During this time he taught many aspects of the subject and, in the last ten years of his career, developed an abiding enthusiasm for relief print-making.
He was elected a full member of the Society of Wood-engravers in 2006 and has been nominated as a candidate for the Royal West of England Academy in 2007.
He has had many shared and one-man shows in Bristol and has exhibited regularly with the
Society of Wood Engravers; at the Royal West of England Academy; the Museum of Garden
History and Bankside Gallery, London, and other venues around the country and also in
America.
The first of a set of large-scale engravings of panoramic views of Bristol, won a major prize for being of outstanding merit in the National Print Show held at the R.W.A. in 1997, a panoramic view from Park Row, Bristol, won a prize in the annual RWA show in 2006. He was Artist in Residence at the Records Office, in Cumberland Basin, Bristol in 2005 when he produced his largest engraving: a panoramic view from their rooftop over 8feet in length.
His work is in many private collections and has been purchased by Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery and also by the Theatre Collection at Bristol University. Some of his work was published in a collection of prints of engraved gardens. (Primrose Hill Press 2001) and a hard-back book of fifty of his engravings of Bristol was published in 2002 by Redcliffe Press under the title of ‘Panoramic Bristol’, a second volume, entitled ‘Bristol and Beyond’ was published in 2006 bringing the total number of engravings of Bristol he has done to well over 100.
His favourite themes include : cityscapes- many different aspects of the city of Bristol-rooftop views and panoramas especially and also views of various foreign cities such as Venice and Florence, Dubrovnic and Valetta. In these, he works in pen & ink, watercolour, pastel and acrylic, as well as in black & white engraving techniques
He has also produced a series of works based on the interiors of theatres and opera houses he has visited. He made a series of large, coloured linocut prints of opera houses, with scenes from his own, imagined productions of Wagner operas on-stage. (These works reflect a late conversion’ to the music of this composer)
He is continuously adding to an extensive series of black and white engravings of natural forms including various flowers, fruits and vegetables and to another series of studies of cats. At times, particularly in his prints, he also enjoys working in a purely abstract, imaginative way.
A volume of his engravings of flowers, fruits and vegetables was published by Redcliffe Press in 2005 entitled ‘Asparagus and Other Friends’
He has explored many different media over the years but now works mainly in water-colour, pastel, black and white engraving and coloured linocut techniques.
His work is in many private collections and has been purchased by Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery and also by the Theatre Collection at Bristol University. Some of his work was published in a collection of prints of engraved gardens. (Primrose Hill Press 2001) and a hard-back book of fifty of his engravings of Bristol was published in 2002 by Redcliffe Press under the title of ‘Panoramic Bristol’, a second volume, entitled ‘Bristol and Beyond’ was published in 2006 bringing the total number of engravings of Bristol he has done to well over 100.