Stockport art gallery

Not many people visit Stockport art gallery due to its size and the fact that not many know it's there. I visited a few day's ago as I often do, to come across an amazing exhibition from Caroline Johnson, the official urban sketcher for Manchester. Her work is amazing. Caroline studied at Harris School of Art in Preston, then a year at Falmouth School of Art, then three years at London's Central College of Art and Design leading to her diploma. After living in Brittany for nine years, Caroline now lives in Lancashire. She couldn't cope with being away from the Northwest of England for too long, as her root's are here. For me, Caroline make's you see beauty in dull looking building's or area's, that you wouldn't normally see. She said“One of the artist’s jobs is to see and to re-present to others the beauty of the mediocre and the everyday:  the patchwork of old pavements, creeping shadows, forgotten doorways and broken fences; the watchful solidity of a gasworks and the resplendence of red brick; the mystery of parked cars, the shape of new architecture.

 And parallel to this, a river of humanity gives life and breath to the city, those anonymous strangers who move with us through its spaces.”