Painting yet as the light fades (From Durham Times)

Painting yet as the light fades

2:19pm Friday 22nd January 2010

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AN ARTIST who continues to paint despite failing eyesight is co-author of a book about his travels around the North in the company of a friend.

Bill Eltringham, 85, who is registered blind, and Ronald Trounson, who wrote the text, are coproducers of Coffee, Cake and Ale.

Mr Eltringham (below), a retired social worker, is a resident of Belmont Grange Nursing Home, near Durham. He studied art at college in his youth and took up painting again at 65.

Originally from Shiney Row, he has painted portraits and local beauty spots. In 2007, he was commissioned to paint St Mary Magdalene Church at Belmont to mark its 150th anniversary.

Determined to produce as much work as possible while he still can, he provided the illustrations for Coffee, Cake and Ale.

Copies are available at the nursing home and St Mary Magdalene Parish Hall, price £5.

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