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The Big Picture: Scenes from 30 years
by Conrad Astley25/ 8/2005
A THIRTY-YEAR retrospective of a Manchester artist's work is now
on display.
The Touching the Sky exhibition celebrates Whalley Range artist
Peter Roebuck's career, and will include well-known Manchester
scenes he has painted over the years.
These include the Mersey, Chorlton Water Park and Beech Road in
Chorlton.
Peter has been painting full-time since 1975 and his work has been
exhibited in galleries across the North West.
Before this, he worked in advertising design for five years, before
quitting to work as an unskilled labourer - claiming this inspired
him to devote more of his spare time to art.
Peter began by creating watercolour images from his imagination,
and later went through a period of painting abstract pictures of
geometric shapes.
The artist said this led him to realise that the principles behind
modern and traditional art were the same.
He has since spent years painting realistic images influenced by
masters such as Monet, Constable and Turner.
As well as painting North West scenes, he has visited sites in
Cornwall, Wales and the Cotswolds to paint landscapes and
seascapes, and he also has a passion for still life images.
The exhibition will also showcase the work of other artists such as
Bernie Georgeson, Darren Nixon and Tanja Jager who have explored
the landscape genre through other techniques.
Main picture: HMS Bronington on the Ship Canal. Right: Beech Road
Park, Far right: Chorlton Brook.
Touching the Sky is on at the ImiTate Gallery in Stockport
Road, Longsight, until September 18.
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