Peter Brook, the Pennine landscape painter, was born in the winter of 1927. He taught art at Sowerby Grammar school before becoming a full time artist in his 40...
One of the world’s greatest living landscape photographers, Michael Kenna, made a nostalgic journey back to his roots when he appeared at a special retrospectiv...
Jeremy Deller, who won the Turner Prize in 2004, returns fresh from his success at the Venice Biennale to curate this new Hayward Touring Exhibition, ‘All That ...
Chester’s Gorstella Gallery is holding its rather short Autumn exhibition.
The exhibition is showcasing over 100 landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and portr...
The organisers of a major poetry competition are hopeful of a record number of entrants for next year’s event.
The Chris Salmon Poetry Extravaganza takes pla...
Simeon Stafford was born in Dukinfield in 1951 but relocated to Cornwall in 1996. At the of age of 14 Stafford met L.S Lowry who encouraged him to paint. Lowry ...
An iconic outdoor street gallery will open for free to the public after receiving a £99,000 award from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Fields of Battle Land...
The fascinating variety of abstract art is being celebrated at Chester’s Grosvenor Museum with the exhibition ‘Pure Beauty: The Pleasures of Abstract Art’, whic...
A Macclesfield graphic designer and cartoonist with a love of comic books has launched his own version, and gained the seal of approval from television presente...
The Macclesfield artist Ben Kelly is increasingly being compared to L S Lowry,and he doesn’t really like it.
There is, to be fair, a certain element of being...