Sketching ‘The Living War Memorial’.

by | Jan 4, 2018 | Events, News, Sketching, Urban Sketchers

One of the more memorable sketch crawls from 2017 was when Yorkshire Urban Sketchers joined with local people and artists on Western Road to sketch the trees under threat of being chopped down as part of Sheffield council’s controversial city wide action on so called problem trees.

The trees along Western Road were planted in 1919 to honour former pupils of Westways School who didn’t return home from the Great War and were recognised as a living war memorial by The Imperial War Museum. What was particularly poignant was that the event took place on Armistice Day.

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Every tree was painted as a permanent record and shown in the exhibition ‘Fallen soldiers, standing trees ‘ which took place at Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield. My reportage sketches were used as part of the exhibition. Here’s me with Sarah Deakin one of the people responsible for the exhibition.

The sketch crawl was also part of the USKGlobal24hrSketchwalk celebrating 10 years of Urban Sketchers.

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