Brighouse (2024)
Original media: Inks, gouache, acrylics, watercolour, coloured pencil, gold leaf and gold thread.
Painted for 'Engineers & Chocolatiers' - a solo exhibition to celebrate Calderdale at Bankfield Museum, 2024.
For the ‘Engineers & Chocolatiers’ project I began in Todmorden, at one end of the valley, and had to finish in Brighouse at the other! I started at the top of the town at The Smith Art gallery. It was a bright and warm day and the grounds surrounding it were full of wild flowers. The walk back down to the town is flanked by two large churches. The Central Methodist Church on the left, and St Martin’s Church on the right. There’s a lot of artistic licence used to patchwork everything I wanted to include as the town is full of pretty and interesting buildings. So, below the church there’s the old town hall, The Prince of Wales Inn, the Richard Oastler Pub (in an old Methodist Church), a pretty little dry cleaners (which I think was probably once a Picture House). A grand parade of shops that include Harrison Lord Art Gallery and the old Post Office building. The pretty building below is the old Victoria Theatre (now the Calder Pub). Sugden Flour Mills demand to be acknowledged. My children used to love Rokt climbing walls, and I think they’re probably Brighouse’s most distinctive landmark. From the mills I walked along the tow path and out of the town towards Cromwell Bottom nature reserve. It very quickly goes from industrial to quiet green space with the Calder Valley Greenway passing between the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
For the ‘Engineers & Chocolatiers’ project I began in Todmorden, at one end of the valley, and had to finish in Brighouse at the other! I started at the top of the town at The Smith Art gallery. It was a bright and warm day and the grounds surrounding it were full of wild flowers. The walk back down to the town is flanked by two large churches. The Central Methodist Church on the left, and St Martin’s Church on the right. There’s a lot of artistic licence used to patchwork everything I wanted to include as the town is full of pretty and interesting buildings. So, below the church there’s the old town hall, The Prince of Wales Inn, the Richard Oastler Pub (in an old Methodist Church), a pretty little dry cleaners (which I think was probably once a Picture House). A grand parade of shops that include Harrison Lord Art Gallery and the old Post Office building. The pretty building below is the old Victoria Theatre (now the Calder Pub). Sugden Flour Mills demand to be acknowledged. My children used to love Rokt climbing walls, and I think they’re probably Brighouse’s most distinctive landmark. From the mills I walked along the tow path and out of the town towards Cromwell Bottom nature reserve. It very quickly goes from industrial to quiet green space with the Calder Valley Greenway passing between the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation.
Available to buy as a mounted and signed limited edition print - unframed. Hand-finished with gold leaf and gold thread.
59cm x 75cm (including mount)
Limited print edition of 150
£290.00