Northern Quarter - Original Drawing
Northern Quarter (2024) - biro, ink and wash
Original drawing of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. On A3 cartridge paper.
Original drawing, signed. I’m more than happy to advise on mounting and framing. Original drawings, especially at A3, are expensive things due to the amount of time that goes into them. I’m more than happy to discuss payment options if you’d like to get in touch.
My spiel about the spot:
View South-East from Stevenson Square in Manchester's Northern Quarter. Some real architectural gems here, with the two on the corner beyond coffee shop Ezra and Gill and Fan Boy Three both likely to be snapped up and redeveloped in the next few years.. this being the Northern Quarter after all. Interesting to sketch them in this state of abandonment.
In some way quite a typical view of looking through the very Manc tunnel of factories and warehouses onto... another warehouse in the distance. But wait! The row on Hilton Street of low-rise townhouses in the centre are part of Manchester's late 1700s architectural legacy, something that's quite rare for a city which is largely still of Victorian and Edwardian stock. Those late 1700s buildings would have likely held workshops or cellar dwellings in their basements, the type of artisanal production later replaced by the factory production evidenced by the factories in the foreground. Now those late 1700s artisanal workshops and dwellings are home to boutiques and fashion stores. Around the corner I get my brows done.
Marlsbro House with its funky checker-board pattern is a modern, 70s(?) recladding of an 1888 factory which housed clothing factories. Opposite it on the corner is Hatters, which is a gorgeous Edwardian-period building with pretty zany features - the rounded arches on its sides and front and huge windows make it really stand out from the more utilitarian factory structures and square windows which surround it. The light pouring through the windows would have been ideal for making hats by. Bringing it round to today, Thom and I stayed here when it was a hostel and we were looking for a place to live in 2018.
The last building in the distance you can see is back to standard Northern Quarter building fare - another warehouse called the Fourways Packing Warehouse. Home now to cafes, studios and the Basement gay sauna.
Northern Quarter (2024) - biro, ink and wash
Original drawing of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. On A3 cartridge paper.
Original drawing, signed. I’m more than happy to advise on mounting and framing. Original drawings, especially at A3, are expensive things due to the amount of time that goes into them. I’m more than happy to discuss payment options if you’d like to get in touch.
My spiel about the spot:
View South-East from Stevenson Square in Manchester's Northern Quarter. Some real architectural gems here, with the two on the corner beyond coffee shop Ezra and Gill and Fan Boy Three both likely to be snapped up and redeveloped in the next few years.. this being the Northern Quarter after all. Interesting to sketch them in this state of abandonment.
In some way quite a typical view of looking through the very Manc tunnel of factories and warehouses onto... another warehouse in the distance. But wait! The row on Hilton Street of low-rise townhouses in the centre are part of Manchester's late 1700s architectural legacy, something that's quite rare for a city which is largely still of Victorian and Edwardian stock. Those late 1700s buildings would have likely held workshops or cellar dwellings in their basements, the type of artisanal production later replaced by the factory production evidenced by the factories in the foreground. Now those late 1700s artisanal workshops and dwellings are home to boutiques and fashion stores. Around the corner I get my brows done.
Marlsbro House with its funky checker-board pattern is a modern, 70s(?) recladding of an 1888 factory which housed clothing factories. Opposite it on the corner is Hatters, which is a gorgeous Edwardian-period building with pretty zany features - the rounded arches on its sides and front and huge windows make it really stand out from the more utilitarian factory structures and square windows which surround it. The light pouring through the windows would have been ideal for making hats by. Bringing it round to today, Thom and I stayed here when it was a hostel and we were looking for a place to live in 2018.
The last building in the distance you can see is back to standard Northern Quarter building fare - another warehouse called the Fourways Packing Warehouse. Home now to cafes, studios and the Basement gay sauna.
Northern Quarter (2024) - biro, ink and wash
Original drawing of Manchester’s Northern Quarter. On A3 cartridge paper.
Original drawing, signed. I’m more than happy to advise on mounting and framing. Original drawings, especially at A3, are expensive things due to the amount of time that goes into them. I’m more than happy to discuss payment options if you’d like to get in touch.
My spiel about the spot:
View South-East from Stevenson Square in Manchester's Northern Quarter. Some real architectural gems here, with the two on the corner beyond coffee shop Ezra and Gill and Fan Boy Three both likely to be snapped up and redeveloped in the next few years.. this being the Northern Quarter after all. Interesting to sketch them in this state of abandonment.
In some way quite a typical view of looking through the very Manc tunnel of factories and warehouses onto... another warehouse in the distance. But wait! The row on Hilton Street of low-rise townhouses in the centre are part of Manchester's late 1700s architectural legacy, something that's quite rare for a city which is largely still of Victorian and Edwardian stock. Those late 1700s buildings would have likely held workshops or cellar dwellings in their basements, the type of artisanal production later replaced by the factory production evidenced by the factories in the foreground. Now those late 1700s artisanal workshops and dwellings are home to boutiques and fashion stores. Around the corner I get my brows done.
Marlsbro House with its funky checker-board pattern is a modern, 70s(?) recladding of an 1888 factory which housed clothing factories. Opposite it on the corner is Hatters, which is a gorgeous Edwardian-period building with pretty zany features - the rounded arches on its sides and front and huge windows make it really stand out from the more utilitarian factory structures and square windows which surround it. The light pouring through the windows would have been ideal for making hats by. Bringing it round to today, Thom and I stayed here when it was a hostel and we were looking for a place to live in 2018.
The last building in the distance you can see is back to standard Northern Quarter building fare - another warehouse called the Fourways Packing Warehouse. Home now to cafes, studios and the Basement gay sauna.