A POLITICAL artist who became a college tutor in East Lancashire will have his work displayed in an exhibition.

The work of Hasan Dhaimish, who taught graphics at Nelson and Colne College for 12 years, will be displayed at the Pendle Heritage Centre, Barrowford, in March.

Mr Dhaimish, who died in 2016 at the age of 60, drew several cartoons as part of the anti-Gaddafi movements in the early 1980s.

During the Libyan revolution, he moved to the Middle East and worked for television.

His son, Sherif, put the exhibition together, which consists of two themes — his father’s love for music, particularly jazz, Cuban and blues music fused with his African roots, and his political work.

Sherif said his father was well known in Libya for the work he created.

He said: “His work was very hard hitting. He put himself in a lot of danger. It was dangerous in that part of the world to say the things he was saying, it’s not like it is over here.

“He had a huge following, he was against what was going on at the time and there were a lot of people who agreed with him and believed in his work.”

Hasan arrived in Burnley during the mid-1970s and taught at Nelson and Colne College between 1996 and 2008.

He also taught at Burnley College and Craven College and had lived for a short time in Qatar.

Sherif said: “My dad loved teaching students at the colleges during his life.

“The pupils really took to him and he found it really satisfying.

“I wanted to put this together because there will be students of his who will have never seen his work, and I thought it would be a great chance to present the pieces to the public.

“He loved music. He was a really big jazz fan and he loved to paint with those vibes and express them onto the canvas.”

The exhibition will be on from Friday, March 23, to Monday, April 2.

Sherif will be giving a talk about his father’s life and the works on display.