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Urban Sketching Calendar 2023
Urban Sketching Calendar 2023
Yes, it’s been a whole year since my last post and yes, this one is also about calendars. Calendars take up a great deal of my head space at this time of year (admittedly I’m running a little behind schedule this year) as I collate, edit and ponder on which images to use for the next batch of designs. Before I can even start to choose the images, I need to choose my subjects. Last year for the…
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Craft show - done!
Craft show – done!
Well, I survived the Chorley Contemporary Crafters Big Crafty Takeover on Sunday which was a great relief! We had an early start, getting up at 6.30, not a time of day with which I am particularly familiar, then a little light weightlifting as we loaded up the car in the slushy remains of the previous day’s snow. Thank goodness the weather wasn’t as bad as we had feared, there was no fresh snow…
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It's Calendar Season (again).
It’s Calendar Season (again).
Warning – this is a long, nostalgic and self indulgent post! Every year since 2010 I have been designing and selling calendars from my Etsy Shop and other places, over that time I have sold 130 of them from Etsy. It all started innocently enough eleven years ago with this single offering which featured my favourite photos at the time, a mix of nature, travel and graffiti. I chose to display it…
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Artist's Studio Calendar 2012
Artist's Studio Calendar 2012
This is the third year I have made calenders to sell in my Etsy Shop and each year they have been a little different, and I think, a little better. The first one features my Artist’s Studios photographs. We are lucky enough to have some good friends who are very talented artists, we visit them often and I always make time to potter around their studios with my camera to see what I can find. The…
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2012 Graffiti Calendar
My graffiti calendar last year was very popular so I am hoping that this year’s offering will be as well. The format has changed since last year, it’s the same layout and size as my Artist’s Studio Calendar which I finished earlier this week. I have used some old favourite graffiti pictures like Ministry of Silly Walks and I Can Feel Your Smile, but most of the images are ones which haven’t…
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It's been a while.....
It’s been a while…..
Sketching in Oxford Oxford concertina sketchbook, 8-10th October I’m kicking off with a post about what I got up to in Oxford on a weekend’s sketch meet. It was a couple of days spent perched on my tiny stool staring and squinting at beautiful honey-coloured buildings and trying to compress them into one dimension in my concertina sketchbook. First Sketch, let’s call it my ‘warm-up’…
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My husband and I lived right in the centre of Manchester over 20 years ago, back in the days when it wasn’t peppered with shiny little flats on the where a convenient car-park and scenically tumbledown old building used to be. Flats like ours (or loft apartments as we learned to call them) were of a much higher social status, suited to the brave trailblazers who moved their lives into the edgy city centre. We lived on Hulme Street on the top floor of an old Salvation Army warehouse and visiting friends sometimes recalled purchasing second hand furniture for their student digs or first married homes ‘back in the day’. It was still a gritty and real area, with single story Dunlop manufacturing sheds right opposite us, squeaky 6am shutter doors included, along with trundling fork lift trucks and boiler suited workers standing outside to catch a breather with a giant mug of tea in hand. Along from that was the old petrol station where we were regularly regaled with either amusingly drunken serenades from the residents of the Salvation Army hostel at the other end of the street, or occasionally, more alarming and violent drunken altercations. There were usually a couple of our Sally Army of the garage residents sunning themselves on the low wall as they enjoyed their cocktails as trailblazers of the now ubiquitous all day outside drinking.
We spent many happy hours exploring this exciting urban environment, cameras (note, these were real cameras, with 35 or 120mm film) shooting away, unknowingly making a record of a landscape which was to change beyond recognition in some areas. Often we ended up in the highly insalubrious environs around Piccadilly Station which is one of those areas which has changed, and yet somehow hasn’t. I was always drawn to the giant yellow doors of the mysterious Mayfield Storage Distribution Ltd, the yellow almost glowed out of the dirty brick surroundings. I photographed the Mayfield doors several times over the years, various cameras (later phones) with various lenses giving different images and as my editing style changed over the years, the final images varied. I’ve rummaged around in my archive and found three (surely there are more?).
Mayfield Storage Distribution Ltd 2004
Mayfield Storage Distribution Ltd 2011
Mayfield Storage Distribution Ltd 2013
Fast forward to 2018 and Jonathan Schofield was offering one of his excellent tours around the old Mayfield Station before it’s radically redeveloped. It was with great anticipation and a freshly formatted memory card that I finally found out what lies behind the big yellow doors. We entered from the Baring Street side, where GRUB Manchester will be located from the summer, then the adventure started. We wandered around downstairs before heading up the ramp at the back of the Star and Garter pub to the abandoned tracks on the top. Ironically I somehow neglected to photograph the big yellow doors which started my Mayfield story.
I’ve written quite enough now, so here are the photos from the tour in the order in which I shot them. You can find the full set on my Flickr.
Mayfield Station My husband and I lived right in the centre of Manchester over 20 years ago, back in the days when it wasn't peppered with shiny little flats on the where a convenient car-park and scenically tumbledown old building used to be.
View from my seat at #glamorousrestaurantmanchester Post Christmas dim sum, a modest selection! #urbansketchers #manchesterurbansketchers #fountainpensketch #fudepen #usk #uskmanchester (at Glamorous Restaurant)
Final meet of the year for #manchesterurbansketchers, the last day of the Xmas Markets and my first visit. Drawn from the relative comfort of the Slug and Lettuce. #urbansketchers #manchester #sketching
Lola is ready for Friday night supper. #britishbluecat #catonthetable #britishblue
Old envelopes, Financial Times and a bit of rolling Yorkshire hillside all together on Edge St in the Northern Quarter. #urbansketchers #uskmanchester #sketch #collage #oldenvelopes #manchester
Very nice Margate-rita at @gbpizzadidsbury super thin crust and delicious garlic oil. A very fine evening out! I found the photo of the one I had at the original restaurant in Margate about three years ago - looks much the same! #gbpizza #margaterita #pizza (at Great British Pizza Didsbury)
Out and about with @altrinchamurbansketchers at the Knutsford Christmas Markets today. It was very busy! #altrinchamurbansketchers #manchesterurbansketchers #urbansketchers #sketch #knutsford #knutsfordchristmasmarket #inksketch (at Knutsford Christmas Market)
Chilly in the garden on Sunday at Gorton Monastery with Manchester Urban Sketchers. My first drawing with my Sailor Fude pen. #usk #uskmanchester #gortonmonastery @themonasterymcr #urbansketch #sailorfude #fountainpen #inksketch (at The Monastery Manchester)
Drawn/watercoloured on Sunday at Gorton Monastery with Manchester Urban Sketchers. #usk #uskmanchester #gortonmonastery @themonasterymcr #urbansketch #watercolor (at The Monastery Manchester)
Yum! @jamieoliver’s flatbreads with soft eggs, chilli, mango chutney, yoghurt and avocado. Perfect quick supper! #jamieoliver #geetasmangochutney #homecooking #vegetarian #jamieoliver5ingredients
Into the sun in #manchester #blackandwhite #iphone7plus #eyeshootphotography (at Manchester, United Kingdom)