The grandson of a talented painter is searching for family members of other 20th-century Aire Valley artists.

After Dave Foster stumbled across the oil-painted works of his grandfather in the attic of his family home in Bingley, he began to investigate other artists of the same location and era.

Eventually he came across the Aireville Group, a body of talented artists who painted scenes in watercolour and oil inspired by the Aire Valley.

Mr Foster is already in the process of producing a film, book and photographic record about the long-forgotten Aireville Group, that thrived in the 1880-1950 era, but is now interested in meeting the family and viewing the works of other artists of the same time period in the area.

Mr Foster said: "I am researching painters working in the Aire Valley. My grandfather painted pictures and people around Stanbury. I am giving a talk on him.

"It would be nice if people who knew artists from that era could bring their works and I could meet them."

The talk will be held on March 10, at Haworth and Stanbury Women's Institute, and is entitled "Walter C Foster and his Associates".

Mr Foster said: "I will be talking about him and Thomas Clifton Butterfield, who was head teacher of Keighley School of Art from 1889, and Augutus Spencer, born in Silsden, who was a pupil there at the same time.

"I am interested in meeting family and viewing paintings topography-wise and in seeing some of the Yorkshire beauty spots.

"I would like to talk to the friends and families of artists afterwards and look at the works."

The talk - at West Lane Baptist Church, in Haworth - begins at 8pm and Mr Foster asks for anyone who is attending with their relatives' paintings to contact him on 0113 2742106.

The website, which features details about his up and coming film on the Aireville Group, can be viewed at www.tigershark.tv/ava.