Shambles Square No. 5 at Night, Limited Edition Number 3 of 30 Print

A limited edition giclée print of an image painted in 2015. It is hand-signed in pencil, printed onto high quality, Hahnemühle German Etching paper and presented unframed. The size is the same as the original painting of 40cmx50cm but with an additional 3cm blank border area. This painting is a nocturnal scene of city nightlife in an area in Manchester where 3 pubs sit next to each other including two in old 16th century timber framed buildings and which becomes very busy on summer evenings when people sit outside drinking. It's painted with an exciting use of colour, with many rich violets, purples, and indigos swirling around in the starlit night sky, adding energy to the distortive, expressionist style in which the poetic feelings inspired by the view are expressed. The hope is to convey the vibrancy and beauty of the scene on an evening in a city bustling with activity as people are out drinking and enjoying themselves. Zooming in will reveal a wealth of detail in the various figures populating the scene, suggesting an abundance of narratives and incidence which the viewer can fill in with his or her own imagination. Great pains have been taken to include much detail. There is an element of primitivism, the naïve, in the work, inspired partly by the likes of painters such as L S Lowry. It is the fifth version I painted of this scene, hence the title No.5.