Wishing all the brilliant art teachers heading back to school a fantastic new term! 🎨✨ I can’t wait to pop on my favourite #ArtisaSeriousSubject badge and join some of you for my KS3/4 portrait workshops! 🙌 #BackToSchool #ArtEducation #PortraitWorkshops

For today’s #ThrowbackThursday, I’m reposting “Texter and screamer” - one of my London urban landscapes that sold a couple of months ago 🔴 The narrative plays with different types of communication: the woman texting, next to Stik’s giant sprayed figure, screaming at her.

@ArtsKeele 3/3 A huge thank you to the judges and organisers at @ArtsKeele and the Three Counties, and to @NewcastleBID for sponsoring this award. Your support is really appreciated. 🙏❤️.

2/3 This painting’s allegory explores the delicate balance between strength and fragility - in human life as well as in the buildings and communities we live in. These are the places where our memories are made, yet, if neglected, they can crumble just like ourselves.

Last night, my painting “The Allegory of Dermis and Gypsum” won the People and Place Award at the Three Counties Exhibition in Stoke-on-Trent. Winning this award means so much to me, as my work is rooted in documenting people and place. 1/3

My bagsy drawing of @jodrellbank has sold 🔴 One of my largest to date (42x55cm), it links astrology + the Lovell Telescope through an upcycled @AllSaintsLive bag. Just one artwork left in the show I’m in @silkmuseummacc: @Picturedromemac on a Tesco bag (£85). DM if interested

Here’s a timelapse of the walk from Withy Grove Stores to the MAFA Voyages exhibition @ManCathedral The show explores the idea of exploration of places and journeys. My painting of Withy Grove Stores is still available to buy. If you’re interested, please just drop me a DM.

NOW SOLD 🔴.

🏅 My #bagsy sketch of Withy Grove Stores has just won the MAFA Academician Award. Drawn in pen & ink on an upcycled McDonald’s bag, this one-off is available framed for £125. Please DM me if you’re interested.

@barewall 3/3 …on William Clowes Street in Burslem. Both these paintings are available to buy from @barewall Gallery. The 3rd work is a portrait of Bennett, hand-painted onto the cover of his 1908 novel The Old Wives’ Tale, presented in a deep box frame. Sold 🔴

2/3 created by We Are Culla. At the end of the 19th century, this building housed one of the largest printers and bookbinders in Staffs. The second piece, ‘Baines of Bursley’, is inspired by Bennett’s novel The Old Wives’ Tale. It portrays the fictional Baines drapery shop…

I’ve just completed 3 brand-new paintings celebrating Stoke-born author Arnold Bennett, whose works span the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The 1st piece, ‘Book Binders’, depicts the old Wedgwood Printing Works in Burslem. It features the Arnold Bennett–themed mural… 1/3

I’ve just completed this painting celebrating Stoke-born author Arnold Bennett, whose works span the late 19th & early 20th centuries. It’s hand-painted on the cover of his 1908 novel The Old Wives’ Tale, and set in a deep box frame. Sold 🔴

I’m thrilled that my painting “The Allegory of Dermis and Gypsum” has been selected for this year’s @ArtsKeele Three Counties exhibition which opens this Saturday and is on until 30th August in the stunning Ballroom at Fenton Town Hall, Stoke-on-Trent. Admission is free.

@McrSomnambulist Dympna, it was so lovely to bump into you yesterday at Manchester Cathedral. Let’s definitely meet for that coffee. I’ll give you a shout next time I’m in town x.

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2/2 Sadly, this gorgeous building now stands empty, waiting for its next chapter. I chose to draw it on a MaccyD bag so the “M” could stand for Macclesfield. This drawing is available to buy - please DM me if you’re interested!.

What a fab couple of hours in Macclesfield today, urban sketching as part of the A Small Space exhibition’s Artist’s Day @silkmuseummacc. The “bagsy” drawing I did today is of Macclesfield’s original Free Library building, which first opened in 1876. 1/2

3/3 This painting is in the upcoming MAFA Members Exhibition at Manchester Cathedral, entitled VOYAGES. This majestic church provides a stunning setting for an art exhibition, so it’s well worth a visit if you’re in the area. It runs from 2nd - 31st August 2025.

2/3 Until recently, this boarded-up office supplies shop had ghost signage and fly posters across its frontage. In the painting, you can see Mark Titchner’s poster: IT’S THE HOPE THAT KEEPS US HERE, as well as a small Invader street art mosaic that has been there since 2004.