Signed and dated l.r.: Hoodless/88

Oil on board, 51 by 61 cm

Hoodless was born in Leeds and studied at the art college there and at the Royal College of Art where his teachers included Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious. He later taught at Norwich School of Art and the Laird School of Art in Birkenhead where he was principal. Hoodless’s work maintained a strong association with Liverpool and the Wirral, particularly his iconic dockyard scenes, chronicling the machinery, debris and decay of the docks in a surreal manner which recalls the work of Edward Wadsworth and Tristram Hillier. He was a member of the Liverpool Academy and the Wirral Society of Artists and he is represented by a number of northern public collections including the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead both of which he also exhibited at in group exhibitions in his lifetime.