Philip Naviasky deserves more recognition, say the current owners of his former home. They have campaigned for a blue plaque and staged an exhibition. Steve Teale reports.
When Dr Suzie Hamlin and her husband Richard moved into a new home in Leeds, they had no idea of the artist who had lived there before. His name was Philip Naviasky, a Leeds man of Polish extraction who she says should really be more famous than he is. Dr Hamlin and her family quickly learned more about him and recently staged an exhibition of some of his works with another one hopefully in the pipeline.
Though he painted some notable figures, his passion was to capture the everyday person in their everyday clothes and going about their everyday business. Dr Hamlin said: “Thirteen private collections of Naviasky works have been brought together through serendipitous connections all owned by different disconnected people and loved all for different reasons.
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