Staithes - by Terry Harrison

1000 Piece Puzzles - 685mm x 490mm

Box Dimensions - 305mm x 305mm x 50mm

Gibsons have chosen to depict the seaside village of Staithes for this 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle. Through the creative inspiration of the established puzzle artist, Terry Harrison, who specialises in creating puzzle images from a bygone era in Britain, Gibsons in this instance, have given the puzzle hobbyist a lifelike representation of a remote seaside village situated on the north east English coast. Staithes was originally a fishing village that has gone through several transitions. Its most famous incarnation being as an artist's colony during the Victorian era and into the early 20th century known as the Staithes Group lived and worked there. Gibsons puzzles have employed a motif popular throughout their puzzle range such as that of a long established seaside village being accidentally used for other purposes for example as shown in the Gibsons Brixham Harbour 1000 Piece Puzzles also by Terry Harrison.

Staithes, due to its isolation and difficult access down a steep cliffside road, has never had to endure the volume of tourists of other seaside locations many of which are also found in the Gibsons puzzle catalogue. Once upon a time Staithes with the help of a newly built railway line had commercial success when ocean going traffic brought exotic cargo from points east. Nowadays, small fishing boats from Staithes ply the north east waters and eke out a marginal living for their owners and crews.


Terry Harrison was born near Wendover into an RAF family and consequently spent his early years moving from base to base, eventually settling in Farnborough, Hampshire.

After attending Farnham Art School, Terry became a graphic artist working in London before joining the Yellow Pages as an illustrator and later Thompson Directories in their Farnborough head office.

During his leisure time, Terry pursued his true passion which was landscape painting and by 1984 the demand on his original work was so great that he decided to paint full time and has never looked back!

A few years later, Terry began to publish his work as fine art prints and in 1996 was awarded the Best Up and Coming Published Artist of the Year by the Fine Art Trade Guild.

The increasing popularity of Terry's work in both their original and printed formats (including cardboard jigsaw puzzles) is reflected in the ever increasing demand for his pictures both at home and abroad.His work can be found in collections around the world in Europe, Japan and the United STêtes.His work is a mainstay of the Gibsons jigsaw puzzle catalogue with new additions every year.