MANCHESTER PRINT SERIES 2021/2022
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EXCHANGE SQUARE TRAM STOP
“EXCHANGE SQUARE TRAM STOP”
Went to Manchester to see Disclosure with my mate, and walking to stay at a friends through the Square was inspiring. It’s presentable slick architecture appeals to the young ambitious side of me. Exchange Square tram stop is a stop on Greater Manchester's Metrolink. The fluid design of the station is pictured to the left (yellow coloured actually) advertised travel and charge within the city center.
This particular print is less dense, reminding me of stories from my mates who worked in the Alps.
“TREES, TRAMS AND TERESA”
MANCHESTER PRINT SERIES 2022
Hadn’t posted the full image.
Another view walking in the Northern quarter, specifically Exchange Square. The open plan part of the square and its tram line going through in front are pictured here.
Theresa is the woman in this print. (Left)
PAINTING
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PAINTINGS
MANCHESTER
PAINTINGS
ORIGINAL OAK, OTLEY RUN , OCTOBER 2021
“ORIGINAL OAK, OTLEY RUN, HEADINGLEY”
LEEDS PRINT SERIES 2020/2021
PAINTING
2 close ups
HEADINGLEY, LEEDS is a popular student town. During the weeknights and weekends the headingley pubs host, with live music, quiz nights, queues.
This pictures queueing showing IDs at the door.
ORIGINAL OAK : NO8 of 15-venue Headingley rite of passage pub crawl “ THE OTLEY RUN”
I have included the decorations, but also intend to express the festivities pubs accommodate in these shapes and figures.
“THE ECCLES LINE, METRO LINK “
MANCHESTER PRINT SERIES 2021/2022
PAINTING
The ECCLES METRO-LINK LINE . Trams have been such a consistent feature in this MANCHESTER PRINT SERIES. Transport is a feature I am bringing into my series. When I started the EXETER series, it was lockdown 1(2020) where the presence of cars or busses had been limited . As a sense of activity, busses and trains indicate my movements boldly within lines I work in, as well as depict lockdown regulations lifted at this time (October 2021) . Means of travel like these communicate a sense of length to trips. As a result I like to feel, in these paintings, I have journeyed.
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“METRO LINK MOONLIGHT”
PAINTING
MANCHESTER PRINT SERIES 2021/2022
This is the Exchange square tram stop, one area I have already printed in the MANCHESTER PRINT SERIES 2021/2022. The painting is based upon stories of young people getting the tram (metro link) to town for nights out. Seemed cool. In this moonlight setting I have tried be elaborate with the architectural features of the square using light blue.
Seeing @joholdsworthstudios Exhibition at @508_gallery , Chelsea, was a prompt to do some more painting.
Jo Holdsworths show
508 GALLERY,CHEALSEA
The blues ability to seem renewed and expressive in every painting is what I admired in her work.
Have been working on 2 PAINTINGS. This painting is based on impressions walking through Canary Wharf. The old war office building and local bars/ restaurants making up the rest of the image.
A person looks around in the busy setting (Center). Also in front of the car, someone looking at their phone is on their way.
DIGITAL EDITS
MANCHESTER
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LEEDS PRINT SERIES 2020/2021
This is just outside the train station in LEEDS. Travelling at Christmas time is adorned by festive looking street lights.
Will be printing some more of LEEDS’ CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS.🎄❄️☃️
The figures are crossing over to the stations entrance. The very short white square looking bin ( just off the center of this image), acts as a suggestion of a man, and street furniture. I haven’t indicated this building as a stations so much- will be doing another LEEDS STATION PRINT.
“MANCHESTER METROLINK, VICTORIA”
MANCHESTER PRINT SERIES 2022
A print of Manchester Victoria station. Waiting on the platform for a train. View looking across at the Metrolink tram service inside the train station. I tried to illustrate my arrival, depicting standing under the glass roof as well as the excitement and continuity of my Manchester trip to see Disclosure that eve. Stations create such as setting, amplifying feeling of any kind you may have in beautiful moments. I aim to do more station images reflecting moods like this defo
#manchestercreative #manchester
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“MANCHESTER CHRISTMAS MARKET”
GERMAN STALL
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BAR SERIES PRINTS
* £25 A5 PRINTS *
these are BAR SERIES PRINTS. A series of prints based from mostly LEEDS pubs whilst on nights out. The same characterful student confidence is relayed in a abstracted fashion.
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"PONY TAIL PERONI"
"TIKI BAR STRUT"
29/11/2021
A short woman walks away unserved during saturday peak times for "TIKI bar" , LEEDS. The bartender reaches for her attention (center)
Another staff memeber leans over the bar as something catches her attention across the room. Next to her, standing resting her drink is another woman (left)
"A FAMILLIAR ORDER"
17/11/2021
A man orders a drink (center) the woman for.
Sitting in the foreground, a regular at this bar stares recognising a girl from the other night.
He, on the left stool, being watched as another woman rests her drink on a ledge on the (right)
SKYRACK CHAT
LEEDS PRINT SERIES 2020/2021
OTLEY RUN Pub number: 7/15
I have been doing some Print scenes all about being AT THE BAR.
This is SKYRACK. Another bar in HEADINGLEY,LEEDS. The two men at the bar look over the room, mainly catching up with each other. It’s Thursday eve, and that being one day from Friday, everyone in headingley is starting the weekend how they mean to carry on.
2nd image: men at the bar
3rd image: student mates chatting
PONY TAIL PERONI
BAR SERIES
LEEDS PRINT SERIES 2020/2021
* £5 A5 PRINTS *
This isn’t specific of any LEEDS pub. The same characterful student confidence is relayed in a abstracted fashion.
A woman with long ponytail is looking across the left side of room.
A Man is being comforted by a mates arm around his back whilst they stand at the bar (Center of image). The confidence I mention earlier is noticeable in the body language of the guy on the right, striding towards the woman with ponytail. Marks amplify this confidence like echos through out features of the bar.
"DISCO-RO MANCE"
17/12/2021
two single lads HI five, having a good night out (left)
A space man is caught up in the disco setting, he acts as decoration as well as person. A couple glance over the room (Center)
DANCE FOOR ORBIT
the dance floor, like gravity, pulls together a mix of movers and groovers.
everyone is dancing - or almost everyone, as a friends gestures encouragingly to join. (right)
The 3 step into an unfamiliar bar. They're pictured as they enter . and the guys are keen to check it out. ventures like this they don't often do.
A man walks past (right). bar on the left of the image.
3 FRIENDS NOT IN THEIR LOCAL
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“WALLY PASSES THE NOODLE BAR”
On this corner is a noodle bar. Telephone exposed wires make decorative oriental suggestions. Wally looks to his left (Center- right)
HOPPS BEER CHEER
A busy bar scene. The foreground has people standing enjoying the atmosphere, chatting filling the room. Ordering a drink at the back , a woman leans getting the barmans attention . A man drinks Hopps beer whilst hopping. A antler head reflect the bars older person on the
wall (right)
MARGARITA SKIP
A person rushes back to the dancefloor holding a new drink (left) Being served, a woman skips back with her margarita from the bar..
INCLINE AT THE BAR
A bar tender is busy. A man confidently leans to check out the woman. Shes from out of town, a country girl. will they say Hi during the evening?
Woman chatting on the left .
STRINGING THE NIGHT TOGTHER
AROUND THE BAR, people chat the length of the bar. it carries a lively feeling. I had salsa dancing in mind when i was printing this.
"RENDEVOUS IN SHADES OF BLUE"
A more light print.
Happy valentines
Couples pictured at a cafe for a date. Inside the cafe, a couple cheers their drinks (Right, background)
The foreground is outside seating.
Image 3: A woman sat opposite her partner (her partner facing us)
“ A RENOIR LUNCHEON,“
02/2022
A cafe in the summer atmosphere is what this print is about.
The sunny weather translated into the uplifting, impressionistic marks, influenced by RENOIR, on the cafe and about the whole image.
“Luncheon of the boating party” inspo
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“SOIR, ANGEL TEMPO“
BAR SERIES
LONDON, ANGEL
This BAR SCENE I’ve tried to recall the London bustle restaurants and bars generate in the evenings. The ceaseless evening effect bars have makes a rhythm on every street. My lines have tried to capture and imitate this in an outside seating area bordering on the pavement, a classic sight. Love these streets
ANGEL was the first place I exhibited some of my DIGITAL EDITS amongst PRINTS at gallery @candidartstrust
