Huddersfield artist Dr David Blackburn has been presented with the MBE.
Sadly the artist was too ill to travel from the Huddersfield home where he lives but the award was presented by the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Dr Ingrid Roscoe.
Dr Blackburn, 74, received the MBE to recognise his work as one of Britain’s finest landscape painters.
He still lives in his home town but is in poor health.
He studied at the Huddersfield School of Art and the Royal College of Art before travelling to Australia to work in Melbourne.
He later returned and was involved with universities in Manchester and Oxford before taking up a post at Georgetown University in Washington, United States.
His work has been shown around the world and fellow artist Maxwell Doig said: “David Blackburn is not a landscape artist, not an abstractionist in the ordinary sense. He is a painter of metamorphosis.”
