Northern Grit

‘The Coal Steam Ghosts’
Available at the Rutland Gallery

A selection of Industrial homage paintings.

Some have been chosen to showcase the irresistible light of the sun, and to evoke the parallels within physics, industry and the industrial world as it once was. The figures now become a host of ghosts from an age of lost industries. walking or more likely, cycling with the ever present cigarette, dwarfed by the monolithic vastness of ships or winding gear. Workers in a landscape of cold steel, smoke and noise, often deafened by hydraulic riveting and leaning in together to hear conversation. The paintings are not intended to represent actual events but are an evocation of the spirit of comradeship generated by the harsh nature of their work, often drawn from fragments of black and white reference. The sun is emblematic of the white heat, born out of the industrial revolution of the eighteenth century. Our sun serves to connect continuity which links us to them.




‘John Brown Ghosts’
SOLD at SWAc Delamore Exhibition

SOLD


‘Harry and the Ghost Riders’
Available at Tony Williams Gallery

‘Ghosts with a Steel Plate’
Available at Tony Williams Gallery


‘The John Brown Ghosts ll’
Available at The Rutland Gallery



‘Ghosts Cycling to Work’
Available at The Rutland Gallery

‘Ghost Miners’SOLD at The Rutland Gallery

“The Ghostss Going In” SOLD at the RSMA Mall Galleries 2024

‘The Light of the World’
SOLD at the John Noott Galleries

Sold at the John Noott Gallery


SOLD

‘Redcar Gloom’
Available at the Tony Williams Gallery

‘The Keel Block Men’
Exhibited at the RSMA.
Available at the Tony Williams Gallery

Cycling Riveters”

Knocking Off”

Big Arthurs New Bike”

Sold at Aura Fine Art, Fenwicks Newcastle

SOLD

SOLD

SOLD