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Manchester Royal Infirmary - Exhibition - A Letter to Lowry

Today I installed a number of my Berwick upon Tweed paintings in one of the display cabinets in Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI). The opportunity was given to me by Brian Chapman director of LIME. The cabinets are on the corridors in the new MRI building and provide an ever changing display of work from artists, museums and third sector organisations.

"A letter to Lowry" is an installation of my studio, including reference material, paint box and a letter to Mr L.S.Lowry explaining how I recently found myself following in his footsteps in Berwick upon Tweed.

The installation will be in place until December 2012 and is on the first floor corridor next to the main lifts.

Rochdale Infirmary Project -LIME

I have been approached by the LIME team to engage in a painting project with Rochdale infirmary. I will be painting in the out patient department and speaking to patients, staff and volunteers about Rochdale and the changes that the area has been going through.

I will ask people about where they grew up, where they worked, their favourite buildings and places in Rochdale. These places and streets will be marked on to a large ordnance survey map of the area giving me an insight into suitable locations for a series of paintings to be displayed in the Hospital.

There will be three initial consultation days with the last being on the 12 December