Market Day - by Trevor Mitchell 1000 Piece Puzzles Market Day is a brand new 1000 Piece Puzzle for the 2009 fall season from the growing range of Trevor Mitchell contributions to the Gibsons puzzle catalogue. This jigsaw puzzle is set in a late summer's day at the market imagined as it would have been decades ago when buses and vans looked as painted in the picture. The village square continues in the background with the ubiquitous square towered church. Given Gibsons careful consideration to nostalgic authenticity and Trevor Mitchell's reputation as a jigsaw puzzle painter of realistic exactitude, vehicles such as the cars and train in the jigsaw puzzle would be exact period likeness. Trevor Mitchell began his career as a designer of brochure and advertising material at a London advertising agency after leaving Bradford Art College in 1979 with a diploma in Art & design. A few years later he returned to his native West Yorkshire and in 1986 was made redundant. This was the moment that Trevor's life changed and he took the first steps towards becoming a self-sufficient artist. However, through the combination of raw talent and dogged Yorkshire persistence his paintings started to get notices. The first breakout came when Trevor was asked to do some paintings of local West Yorkshire scenes for two calendars. Various other commissions followed, including a collection of pictured for greeting cards. The next and most important development in Trevor's career came with the publication of his paintings as prints. One of the many publishers that Trevor has made contact with asked him if he could produce some illustrations depicting farming with steam. Trevor was delighted to accept the challenge, he had always had a fascination with steam traction and the paintings were very successful. Today, the subject matter of Trevor’s paintings is wide and varied, including farming scenes, tractors, vintage vehicles, railways and World War II aircraft. Gibsons is proud to have Trevor Mitchell as one of their valued jigsaw puzzle draftsmen.
