![]() ![]() The Lowry was opened in his honour in 2000, housing around 400 of his paintings and drawings in what is the world’s largest collection of his work. His stylised pictures were mostly painted around Pendlebury, where he moved as a child, and Salford. ![]() Laurence Stephen Lowry was born in Stretford in 1887 and died in Glossop, Derbyshire, in 1976. “It is a nice blend from the old Salford to the new.” Mr Johnson said: “It looks awesome and says exactly what I wanted it to say. “To even stand in the same room as a Lowry painting is absolutely amazing but to have one of your own paintings five feet from his was an amazing thing to happen to someone who started out painting on the streets,” he said.īrady’s mural was commissioned by cafe bar owner Simon Johnson to adorn the wall of Craftbrew, which he has just opened opposite the Lowry art gallery. His interest grew when he was commissioned to create a painting for Manchester Art Gallery, where it was exhibited alongside an original Lowry piece. “I love his style and the fact he took his ideas and worked with them in such a simplistic way, but so effectively, in a way working class people could really relate to,” he said. The Fever: A Spy Novel, Michael Brady, Donald Corren, Mystery, Thriller & Horror>Espionage, Mystery, Thriller & Horror>Suspense. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Brady, 43, said: “It looks simple to replicate but it is one of is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done.īrady said he had always admired the artist and his depictions of working-class Salford and Manchester. Listen to Into the Shadows: The Fever: A Spy Novel audio book by Michael Brady. ![]()
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