Not a traffic jam, but a Classic Car Show Visited the Classic Car Show in Wakefield recently. I expected a few cars in front of the Cathedral. Boy was I in for a pleasant surprise. There were cars, trucks and bikes everywhere! The whole of the town centre. In fact as...
One Drawing at a time: Salford and Manchester Started 10 years ago by Gabriel Campanario, Urban Sketchers has gone on to become a global phenomenon, with chapters in virtually every country. The aim of Urban Sketchers is to draw on location, indoors and out, capturing...
Sketching ‘The Living War Memorial’. 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...
Bradford Classic Car Show Last weekend saw the 11th Bradford Classic Car Show in Bradford City Park. It was my first visit to an event there and I was suitably impressed. What a great asset for the city. The crowds turned out, the weather stayed fine and we were...
Sketching Cliffe Castle Sketchers were out in force at Cliffe Castle last Sunday. Not only were Urban Sketchers Yorkshire there, but in the afternoon artists from Sketch That also made an appearance. Originally the home of Henry Isaac Butterfield the imposing building...
Howard Hodgkin: Painting India Last Friday evening I attended the opening party of the Howard Hodgkin exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield. The exhibition features over 35 works painted over a career lasting 50 years. Regarded as one of Britain’s leading contemporary...
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