About Jim Sorrell JIM SORRELL was born in Buckinghamshire in 1944, and wanted to be an Architect from the age of about 12 years. As long as can be remembered, members of the family have been painting; and Uncles, Aunts, and his Mother were producing both oil and water-colour pictures. Jim qualified as an Architect some 35 years ago, and has enjoyed a busy career, which continues, albeit at a slower pace It has been suggested that distant Dutch ancestry in his Mother’s forebears is responsible for an interest in Art, and he has finally started to also produce paintings in water colours.

Some 6 years ago, having ‘dabbled’ over a number of years, and after Mother stopped painting, he began to actively try to develop some painting techniques, and found himself ‘propelled’ into an Art Society in Coventry, where the learning process continues. He has served as Chairman, and is presently Honorary Secretary of the Coventry Triumph Society of Artists.

Jim has exhibited at The Motor Museum, Coventry, Gainsborough Old Hall, Burton Dassett Church, Kineton Village Hall, The Showcase Building and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry. Several exhibitions have been held at Wolvey Church Millennium Building (for which he was the Architect), and Kilsby and Stretton-on-Dunsmore Village Halls have also seen Jim’s work.  His paintings are hung in Germany and France and calendars have been sent as far as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, France and Germany.

Buildings, figure in much of his work, and their setting in the landscape and the countryside in general provides inspiration. A love of Steam Railways also is evidenced, and there are more ‘projects in the pipeline’, than there is time to tackle them….

More recently, he has become a Friend Member of the Guild of Railway Artists, and would like to progress further, in time. Being an Artist is an activity, which Jim plans to make a major, part of his working day!