A Portrait of St Ives - by John Rickard (1976)

A Portrait of St. Ives
This film, made in 1976 by Burnley film maker John Rickard, looks at another of his passions, painting. John enjoyed travelling in his motor home and where better to sit and paint than in St. Ives, Cornwall during the glorious summer of 1976.
Runtime: 9 min 23 s

John Rickard
John Rickard was a self-taught film maker who was born in Wigan in 1939 before his family moved to Burnley when he was eleven years old. After completing his National Service, John became a printer in Burnley. John’s interest in film making began in the 1950s when he began working with an 8mm cine film camera and later 16mm before graduating to video in the late 1990s.

John produced a number of films from the late 1950s onwards, about Burnley and the surrounding area that were in colour with sound and narration. John became a member of Burnley Cine Club in 1959 and continued making films until he died aged 79 in February 2018. Thank you John.