Barewall Art Gallery in Burslem recently sold Chapel by Arthur Berry (1925-94), raising £2170 for the British Heart Foundation.
The painting (pictured below) was donated from the estate of George Fullard, a Sheffield-born sculptor, to The Pangolin Gallery in Gloucestershire. The sculpture specialist got in touch with Barewall, which sold the painting two weeks after posting the picture on its website.
Berry, sometimes known as ‘the Lowry of the Potteries’, was born in Stoke-on- Trent. He studied at the Royal College of Art and returned to work as a lecturer at the Burslem School of Art and became a fixture in the town.