I recently featured in the 5th episode of Zeitgeist a television art’s programme made by Channel M broadcast on 1st July 2007 and repeated since. The feature is eight minutes long and mainly includes an interview in my extremely untidy studio and footage of an equally untidy me working on a painting of Manchester’s Canal… Continue reading Appearance on Zeitgeist Arts TV Programme
Category: Archive
BBC Interview
In August, I was interviewed in the Oxford Road studios by Mike Sadler of the BBC for BBC Manchester Website. A condensed write up of this interview and also some information about the Surreal City exhibition at the Portico Library & Gallery is on the BBC website here. I was surprised by the write up… Continue reading BBC Interview
Paintings made into postcards by Marketing Manchester
Five of my paintings, Peveril of the Peak No. 4 (featured above) , St. Anne’s Square and War Memorial No. 2 , St. Patrick’s Day Parade No. 2., St. Peter’s Square (Looking West) No. 2, and Manchester Town Hall and Albert Square, have been made into postcards by Marketing Manchester the organisation behind www.visitmanchester.com and… Continue reading Paintings made into postcards by Marketing Manchester
Different Strokes BBC Poll
Some of my paintings have featured in a poll organised by the BBC at their website www.bbc.co.uk in which people were asked to vote on which of three styles of paintings depicting various scenes in Manchester they preferred. The other two painters in the poll were John Mawbey who paints in a realist style and… Continue reading Different Strokes BBC Poll
Moving Manchester Project
During the last year many of my paintings were used as part of the Moving Manchester (Mediating Marginalities) project organised by Professor Lynne Pearce, (Project Director), Dr Robert Crawshaw, Dr Graham Mort, Dr Corinne Fowler (Researcher), Jo McVicker (Administrator), PHD students and a Management Advisory Group at Lancaster University. The project deals with how the… Continue reading Moving Manchester Project
Solo Exhibition, ‘Surreal City’ at the Portico Library & Gallery
An exhibition of some twenty-five of my paintings were shown at the Portico Library & Gallery, 57 Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3HY, Tel: 0161 236 6785 from Thursday 1st September until Thursday 29th September under the title ‘Surreal City.‘ A review of the exhibition from the Manchester Evening News can be found here. Links to… Continue reading Solo Exhibition, ‘Surreal City’ at the Portico Library & Gallery