Yet I got a standing ovation. There won't be a standing ovation tonight, because it's not that kind of gig. Pictures line the walls. They are drenched in colour, sometimes tempered by dark and brooding backgrounds. Flowers of shocking pink seem poised to burst out of the canvas.
Bright blood trickles down the human face of a bull with startling blue eyes.
Skulls and masks, so much a part of Mexican culture, stare from the canvas with haunting expressions. They are the work not of a Mexican, but of another son of Barnsley. In 1997, he made a documentary, Ian McMillan in Mexico, and now he has been commissioned by Yorkshire Television to produce a follow-up series. The experience three years ago had a profound effect on both men. McMillan's already fevered imagination was fired even further, while Mexico gave Beresford the inspiration to take up serious painting again.