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TV Highlights:

Over 500 TV & radio appearances include:

  • Watercolour Challenge - C4 National TX - 36 half hour appearances as artist in residence and commentator, with Hannah Gordon

  • Granada satellite TV Art series with Richard Hammond . . "Home and Gardens Live Time" (6 Shows)

  • Clarke Colours the Lowry Trail - series pilot programme -

  • ('Borrowed  by YTV and Anglia TV )

  • Clarke Colours Britain -series  pilot programme -

  • Snow scene painted  live during a snowstorm BBC

  • The Russell Harty Show - special guest -Live from Harry Ramsdens BBC 1

  • Video Entertainers - guest appearance - National ITV

  • Colour Me Pop - own TV programme -  National BBC 2

  • Composed the theme music and subject matter songs for Wicker's World - YTV

  • 3 Education Series - actor and film music and research  YTV National

  • North Country Folk - own TV Series BBC  North region

  • The Cambridge Folk Festival - 1980 main guest  BBC  2

  • Coronation Street - stood as a liberal candidate against the late Alf Roberts

  • Emmerdale Farm - Cricket Consultant for programme production & actor.YTV

  • "1914 all out' cricket consultant and actor YTV

  • A Bit Of A Do - starring alongside David Jason in drag at a fancy dress party!

  • The New Statesman with Rik Mayall YTV

  • Friday Live - first ever TV debate programme - special music guest x 3 series - Tyne Tees -relative subject matter  songwriting and performance

  • You & I - environment prog with David Bellamy - YTV

  • New Faces -Talent show -original pop idol - ITV Midlands.

  • Scene at 6.30 -Granada Reports -Live from the flags

  • Calendar - YTV regional

  • Look North - BBC North

  • Look East -BBC Norwich

  • Music & Research for 'No Joke Living in Barnsley' - YTV -

  • received the Queen's Award for top TV documentary 1977

  • Appeared on all regional stations in Britain

  • The Rostock International Song Festival - communist eurovision

  • Broadcast in all communist eastern-block counties -came 2nd in public vote


Radio Highlights:

Over 500 radio and TV appearances include:

  • Only artiste to paint live on radio -Radio Sheffield -for children in need

  • Special Guest on The Late Night Show with Lynn Parson's - BBC Radio 2

  • Visually Vivaldi -  interviews - BBC Radio 2 & Radio 5 Live

  • My Kinda Folk - own national series - BBC Radio 2

  • Regular  guest appearances on Country Meets Folk - BBC Radio 2

  • The Jimmy Young Show - special guest - BBC Radio 2

  • The John Dunne Show - special guest - BBC Radio 2

  • The Stuart Hall Show - special guest - BBC Radio 2

  • Much More Music - special guest - BBC Radio 2

  • Both Sides Now - special guest - BBC Radio 2

  • The Late Show - special guest - BBC Radio 2

  • You The Night & The Music- special guest - BBC Radio 2

  • Night Flight - special guest - BBC Radio 2

  • The Folk Show - special guest - Capital Radio, London

  • The Folk Show - own series x 3 - Radio Sheffield

  • Writer - Producer -interviewer -presenter -  Radio Sheffield

  • Appeared on radio throughout the UK


Celebrity Endorsement:

  • The Yorkshire Brush Set for Pro-Arte

  • Art Express - products and materials

  • Leading Art demonstrator for Winsor -Newton art materials 1993

  • Daler -Rowney art materials for Channel 4 TV series

  • Pro -arte -Winsor Newton -Daler Rowney -Derwent for Satellite TV series   


Art Video Releases by GDC:

  • 'Clarke Colours York' - filmed on location and in studio -hour long production

  • Includes free instruction booklet -see merchandise for full details.

  • 20  TV Tips & Techniques in Drawing and watercolour -one hour duration

  • Live from the Lamproom -in concert performance -one hour duration

     ( also -Promotional Personal TV showreel available for potential clients)

     ( Full details on merchandise page)

Educational work with the arts.

    'Game for a Job'  1  - MSC Man Power Services best selling video series

    'Game for a job'  2  (Original music and Actor)       

  • Devised original environmental programmes for schools - using the arts and drama to      promote the value of trees and conservation.

  • Featured on  resource guide video's

  • Tree of life -River of life -(CD rom narrator ) -Moon River-

  • Millennium Meadows-Wildflower meadow conservation projects

  • Enviro Youth in Poland Euro exchange arts and conservation.

  • Folk Masterclass -history of folk music presentation -for Bretton Hall music students   

  • Poetry in the Park: words -music & drama -Kingstone school- Barnsley (Poet and Producer)

Environmental Work:

  • Presented to HRH The Prince of Wales for his contribution and initiatives for the National Environment Awards.-with ceremony performance with Kids from Care

  • Received a special environmental commendation award from English Nature for his art interpretation sculpture work on his own wild flower meadow.

  • Arts in the Environment -poetry -music and drama

  • Tree and wildflower conservation work -poetry -music and drama

  • Owns a SSSI. wildflower meadow.

  • Agenda 21 - Poland - Environmental Youth Project

  • Parish Councillor & S. York's Environmental Representative

  • Services to Mankind Award - for saving a life


Paintings, Songs & Performances Donated To Charity:

  • Sight Savers raised enough money with the sale of one painting to save the sight of 500 people to establish new eye camps in Northern India.- live on BBC. radio2 arts programme.

  • The Hillsborough Football Disaster

  • NSPCC

  • Children In Need

  • The Missing Persons Bureau

  • Age Concern

  • The Whale and Dolphin conservation Society

  • Save the Badger trust -The Woodland Trust

  • The Countryside Commission

  • Sight Savers concert performance

  • Cerebral Palsy: Raised £1000 by auction of completed live painting created on the night

  • Barnsley Hospice: Raised £1200 by auction . . . . (as above) 

  • plus many more & Numerous Environmental issues

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