The Village Green - by Trevor Mitchell

Set of four 500 Piece puzzles - 485mm x 345mm

Box Dimensions - 410mm x 290mm x 50mm

Gibsons have created a special four puzzle set of the same location through the four seasons. The Village Green is the hub of the village, and throughout the year it plays host to many different activities and events. Each jigsaw puzzle has 500 Pièces. Starting at the top left hand we have the fall season. Perhaps not as dramatic as a New England fall there is a still a elegaic feel as the summer is now truly over but not forgotten. Boys are collecting chestnuts in preparation for conker wars and a municipal worker is busy making a bonfire for Guy Fawkes Night which is the 5th of November. The old fashioned red phone box sits timelessly outside the local shop which also doubles as a post office. The puzzle diagonally opposite gives us the village green dressed in its finest Christmas snow white. A red postal van (a relic from days past) collects and delivers the mail. Children in the foreground are busy making a snowman and older kids in the background are having a royal snowball fight. The puzzle directly above the winter season would be May day with children doing the Maypole dance keeping up to the seated Morris dancer playing the fiddle. Lastly e we are in full summer with the local produce and summer fruit pies on display at the summer festival.

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.