{"id":135536,"date":"2025-11-12T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135536\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T09:32:10","slug":"artists-hunt-for-mystery-man-who-inspired-humber-bridge-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135536\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist&#8217;s hunt for mystery man who inspired Humber Bridge painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sally Fairfax and <\/p>\n<p>Charis Scott-Holm,BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762856288_495_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ef264070-bf91-11f0-ab5e-297f12d7a68f.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Emma Prempeh A photo of a painting hanging in a gallery, the paining portrays a man sat resting on a walking aid looking out towards the River Humber, with the Humber Bridge behind him. A tree frames the scene.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Emma Prempeh<\/p>\n<p>Did you take a break to gaze at the Humber during May?<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An artist is trying to track down a mystery man who inspired her latest work of art near the Humber Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Emma Prempeh, 29, was seeking inspiration as she walked along the Hessle foreshore in May, when she came across a man with a zimmer frame who looked &#8220;really serene&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Describing the scene as &#8220;the perfect image&#8221;, Ms Prempeh asked the man for his permission to take a photograph, but did not get his details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She said she would &#8220;love&#8221; to meet her muse to say thank you and show him the finished result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Prempeh said: &#8220;I keep thinking &#8216;why didn&#8217;t I get his name?&#8217; I wish I could locate him. To me it would mean a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762856288_495_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/33e528c0-bf15-11f0-b8cd-876b55a928f2.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ellyse Anderson A professional portrait of the artist, a woman with afro hair pulled back into a ponytail. She is wearing a formal dress and sits on a grey chair. There is a painting behind her and a lamp to the side.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Ellyse Anderson<\/p>\n<p>Emma Prempeh&#8217;s work is inspired by home, identity, and memory<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Prempeh said, after completing the artwork, it felt &#8220;weird&#8221; to not know who the subject was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Describing the man in the image she told BBC Radio Humberside: &#8220;You&#8217;re immortalised in a way and it will live forever, and there&#8217;s a beauty in that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ms Prempeh&#8217;s latest exhibition, The Nearness of Elsewhere, is inspired by her African-Caribbean heritage alongside her recent time spent in Hull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It will be on display at the 87 Gallery in Princes Avenue until 19 December.<\/p>\n<p>The hunt for the mystery man in the picture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sally Fairfax and Charis Scott-Holm,BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Emma Prempeh Did you take a break to gaze&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-135536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}