All eyes will be on paintings by former professional footballer at Louth auction this week

                                               

Serene study of sailing boats (above and below) likely to be in demand at Louth auction  

NOT many former professional footballers go on to make a career for themselves as artists, but one who has done is John Trickett.

Trickett (71) now lives in Nottingham but he grew up in Cleethorpes and was educated at Grimsby's Winteringham Grammar School.

As far as is know, he did not play for the Mariners but was on the books of Torquay United.

After hanging up his boots, he became a self-taught artist, specialising in wildlife and hunting dogs.

His paintings command high prices so there is likely to be plenty of interest when four of them go under the hammer at a sale to be conducted by John Taylors of Louth on Tuesday of this week.