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Cathy Read - Artist -Express Essence Painting

Mixed Media Painting Inspired by Revolutionary Design

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Traveling along Great Ancoats Street in Manchester you cannot help but notice the subject of this Express building painting. Home of the Daily Express but now in new hands, it’s distinctive style has aged well. You’d be forgiven for thinking it was quite a new building. The fact it’s nearly 80 years old is a testament to it’s innovative design. A building that was even more impressive when it was still in use with the printing pressing running at full speed. All visible from the street, and an even better view when seen from the top deck of a bus.

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Easter Cross Patterns

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An Easter Cross pattern painting. This is an old piece I did during my more abstract days but since it’s Easter I thought it would be relevant today. Visually, I think it works. Whether it works as a concept I’m less convinced? At the time, as I say, I was in an abstract phase. I was

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Finished, at last!

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After all my procrastinating, it’s done! Presenting the finished painting of the Barbican from the terrace. It’s a working title still. The structures on the roof remind me of Pill boxes on the coast. I can see something like “Waging war on Art” or “Defence of the Arts” being my final choice. And now the snow

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