Let’s all go to WILMSLOW, as…
Superior beings are resident there
with mansions, Ferraris
and very big hair
Wilmslow poster available at www.statementartworks.com
Wilmslow poster www.statementartworks.com
Woodford poster, by Eric Jackson, Statement Artworks
Growing up in Stockport, it was always an amazing sight to occasionally see the futuristic Vulcan flying overhead - a change from the usual passenger stuff on its way in and out of Manchester Airport.
The v-wing Vulcans, which were based at Woodford Aerodrome a few miles away, are long gone but the legacy remains, and the village is steeped in Britain’s aviation history - the Avro Museum (with a real Vulcan on the tarmac) now stands on the site of the old airfield which once staged the annual Woodford Air Show.
But there have been many other changes, too, not least the building of hundreds of new houses on the site, where Stockport meets Cheshire, with spectacular views of the rolling hills and the Pennines in the distance.
Some things never change, though, and hopefully never will (pandemics allowing), such as the amazing Davenport Arms, or, to give it its original title, which still greets customers at the door, ‘The Thief’s Neck,’ and which the locals have only ever called it anyway.
What a pub it is, with amazing beer and food and one of the best beer gardens in the region. How I love it.
The nearby Notcutts Garden Centre is a bit of a tourist attraction too.
The Woodford poster is available to buy at www.statementartworks.
Read MoreMother's Day - the perfect gifts!
Forget all that slushy nonsense. This Mother’s Day, in keeping with these ‘real’ and testing times, give your Mum something honest and truly northern - a Northern Mother poster or gift. And keeping it topical, here is my Tested positive for being a northerner poster and my latest poster, Withington. Visit the online store at www.statementartworks.com
Mother’s Day gifts and poster
Manc-hattan, whether you are United, City or neutral
My popular Manc-hattan poster will also be available in Man United red or Man City sky blue from Monday September 28. Before then I will be at Levenshulme Market on Saturday and West Didsbury Makers Market on Sunday, when, being topical, I will have my ‘tested positive for being a northerner’ poster, along with the updated Manc Manifesto. See you there.
Cheers - Eric
www.statementartworks.com
The garden fence in Davenport showing my aluminium posters
All-weather aluminium posters - for the garden, kitchen or bathroom
The posters I have completed since the start of the year.
The garden centres may be out of bounds - for now - but while you may not be able to buy flowers or plants for your garden, you can buy one of my posters.
I am now producing them in weather resistant, heavy-duty aluminium (di-bond for the technical), which you can hang on walls or fences, or in those damper places in your house, such as kitchens and bathrooms.
Anthony and Jane in Davenport, Stockport, have just ordered four (Manc-hattan, Stockport pyramid, Marple and Davenport), and they now proudly adorn their garden fence.
Visit the page on my website, www.statementartworks.com, to see how to order.
I have also recently finished the Cheadle poster, bringing the total to six for 2020, with several more on the drawing board. The lockdown is massively weird, but it’s helping me get lots of studio work done.
The pictures show Anthony and Jane’s fence and all my posters of 2020.
Hope you’re all keeping safe and well - Eric
www.statementartworks.com
Happy birthday, Jezza! It's flour/flower power in Hale
Claire wanted a unique present for her partner Jeremy’s 60th birthday surprise. They live in Hale, they have a dog called Otis, they both love to cook (competing for kitchen space to produce their exotic continental dishes), Jezza loves his flowery shirts and they both love to travel.
And Claire wanted all those things featured in the specially commissioned canvas poster, along with a yellow and grey theme to match the kitchen.
It was a tough trick to pull off, but Jezza and Claire were delighted with the results.
If you fancy commissioning your own individually designed artwork, just email me on statementartworks@gmail.com.
Cheers - Eric
Sensational Stockport
Oh what a Thursday night. If anything proves that Stockport is on the up it was last night.
Some of us artists at The Warren (itself a huge success story) were out celebrating its first birthday, and we started out at new bar The Cracked Actor on Underbank. Wow, what a thing of beauty that is, with great hand pulled beers and atmosphere to match.
Then it was on to the Produce Hall for some great grub and more lovely ale (my exhibition is in the new upstairs cocktail bar there), before moving next door but one to the Angel pub. That was the venue for the launch of Stockport’s Mercury Climbing Music and Arts Festival, and we boogied and drank the night away.
What a very special evening, and thanks to Karen at the Warren for co-ordinating it all.
This weekend we are at Altrincham Market (Saturday and Sunday) and Treacle Market in Macclesfield on Sunday.
www.statementartworks.com
Stockton Heath - it’s cool for cats
Stockton Heath prints are here!
Stockton Heath prints already in demand
Getting the new prints of Stockton Heath back from the printers on Thursday morning. The orders are already coming in…from cool cats, obviously!
www.statementartworks.com
White Lion and Blossoms feature my framed Statement Artworks posters
Make mine a double!
My work has just gone into another two fine pubs, on opposite sides of Manchester. The newly extended White Lion in Wrightington, close to Wigan, has put up five of my framed A3s posters - Lancashire, Northern Powerhouse, Wigan, Worsley and Eccles - while south of the city, in Stockport, the Blossoms pubs has put up my Stockport Alphabet A3 framed.
And as a lover of great beer and great pubs, that makes me very happy indeed!
www.statementartworks.com
My pictures in the new White Lion extension
The Stockport Alphabet in the Blossoms
Urmston and Knutsford markets this weekend
Stiff Little Fingers? Now that's a name to conjure with, but check out their version of Bob and Rita Marley's Johnny Was. Played it before and reminded me of why I first loved punk all those years ago. Anyhow, just to remind y'all that I'm at Urmston market this Saturday and Knutsford Market on Sunday, where I'll have my newbies of Monton, Manc-hattan and Stockport Alphabet. See you there, hopefully.
Altrincham and Macclesfield markets this weekend
This weekend we are are at Altrincham Market (Saturday and Sunday) and Treacle Market in Macclesfield (Sunday). Both absolute crackers, and I’ll be selling my recent Stockport Alphabet and Manc-hattan, along with Altrincham, Hale, Bowdon, Macclesfield, Bollington and Poynton (naturally). In the near future there are some very exciting developments coming up (can’t reveal what just yet), and new posters of Monton and Edgeley are on the drawing board. www.statementartworks.com
Read MoreBack at Altrincham Market
I am back at Altrincham Market for the whole of this weekend, and I’ll have my new Cale Green, Davenport, Marple and blue ‘barth’ for sale. www.statementartworks.com
Start of the Great Northern Warehouse experience!
Christmas starts tomorrow (well it does for me) with the Great Northern Warehouse market just off Deansgate in Manchester. I’ll be there on Friday as well, then on Saturday and Sunday it’s off to Altrincham Market. I’ll have all my usual mounts, cards and magnets, plus my new Marple picture, along with a few blue versions of the ‘barth’ poster. See you there. www.statementartworks.com
Read MoreA Manchester Odyssey!
When Lawrence and Rebecca Cray came to buy some posters off me at Urmston market, they couldn’t make up their minds about which ones to buy. They had lived in Worsley and Eccles, and also close to the Mancunian Way. Now they were living in Urmston. I’d done posters of all those places, even one featuring the Mancunian Way, but they were torn.
So hey, bingo, they thought they would have all four in one! The Result is the Manchester Odyssey of the Crays, where I’ve melded all four posters into one with new typography.
The poster is now taking pride of place in their living room above the fireplace.
So now you know - if you want anything bespoke, just ask. I can’t change the background images but I can do anything with the words.
Just email me on statementartworks@gmail.com
Here is the finished result and all the original posters.
All this weekend we are at Altrincham Market.
Stockport, London, Rochdale - the holy trinity!
Local art for local people! Who needs fancy dan customers from the Cayman Islands when you can sell to lovely people on your doorstep? This week I supplied three framed A2 posters to Hatters Promotions who have just moved into new premises off Hillgate in Stockport, about half a mile from where I live. They now hang in the firm’s reception area. Hatters Promotions provide promotional merchandise for companies, from pens and mugs to hampers and bandanas (www.hatterspromotions.com). Two of my posters - London and Hats Off To Stockport - are pictured here along with the Teddy, who belongs to Jo Shippen, the boss of the company! Also, I’ve just finished my Rochdale poster, which, naturally, has to feature the town’s most famous export - the Co-operative movement! Those handsome people in the poster are my friends and neighbours, the Cook family!
Read MoreStatement Artworks on new Co-op website
Exciting news for Statement Artworks. I am one of the first artists in the country to be signed up to the Co-op's brand new local.co.uk website, which is now live (www.local.co.uk). Manchester is the pilot city but the site will soon be rolled out across the country. Watch me being interviewed by the Co-op (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9gVDiqd8VQyC8Q5HD7XlZ4H_ViTHMmEf). Most of my images are on the site, in A3 poster and A4 mount options, and you can buy directly through the Co-op. You can buy from me still at markets, and this weekend I am at Stockport and the Northern Quarter, while on Tuesday I have a stall at Victoria Station. My two latest images will be on sale, plus an adaped version of my Offerton poster, which now has Stockport as the banner. That, along with lots of other images, will soon be for sale at the Hat Works Museum in Stockport and at Staircase House.
Stockport poster
Map of the British Isles
Man City - bitter Blue?
Make a statement with your art!
This Sunday we are at the West Didsbury Makers Market and the Treacle Maket in Macclesfield. Can't find your way to those places? Well you'll be wasting your time consulting my map of the British Isles, but you can hang it on your wall. Yep, my new poster is now for sale in A4 size at the markets, and any size you like online. See you on Sunday! www.statementartworks.com
Hats off to Offerton
Although I'd driven through it a thousand times on the way to the amazing Vernon and Woodbank parks, I'd never noticed the old Battersby hat factory in Offerton, Stockport, just along from the Finger Post pub. It's got that striking water tower - but more importantly the giant letter B on two sides. What a godsend for an idea for a poster, which I think has a definite world war 2 look about it. While the tower was the inspiration, I have to thank the lovely Imogen Francesca Hart, one of my fellow traders, who was the model for the poster. Chorlton-based Imogen is the boss of The Sardinistas, which specialises in Portuguese products, especially those fabulous tinned sardines. The first prints of the Offerton poster will be produced next week, but I am also doing a limited edition of 20 specially marked A2 posters, which I am selling ready framed for £150. www.statementartworks.com
Read MoreCheadle Hulme, Bramhall, Hazel Grove and Pickmere Lake
The commission was to do three posters for a local estage agent without being boring or corporate, and getting in a little joke too. Well if you live in Bramhall, Cheadle Hulme or Hazel Grove you should appreciate these works - which will be used by Snapes estate agents in their summer promotional material.
I've also just finished a commission for Pickmere near Knutsford, which was once THE destination for working class families from Manchester looking for some Cheshire weekend fresh air in them there olden days. There used to be a funfair, pleasure cruiser and rowing boats on the picturesque lake, plus lots more. The poster sort of tells the story.
Now it's mostly returned to nature, but there's a great cafe and fun events from May to October. The poster, along with cards, magnets, mugs and mounts, is available to buy at the cafe, or directly from me.
www.statementartworks.com
Curve appeal of Cheadle Hulme.
Parklife, Bramhall style
The sun always shines in Hazel Grove.
Pickmere - charas came by the score.
Personalised poster for Urmston couple Neal and David
Two great lads who admitted to being 'economic refugees' from Hale and have bought a more affordable house in Urmston, commissioned me to do a special personalised poster.
And with a few tweaks of my Urmston poster, Neal and David got their very own bespoke framed version for their new home. If you fancy a personalied poster, based on any of my images (over 45 and counting) then just contact me on statementartworks@gmail.com. Check out the full range of my work at www.statementartworks.com. My posters are all about the people and places of the north, with a heavy dose of fun thrown in, and I just love adapting them to feature names, streets, whatever you like. Here are the two versions of the Urmston poster.
This Sunday we are doing the West Didsbury Makers Market and Treacle Market in Macclesfield. See you there.
Cheers - Eric
www.statementartworks.com
The original Urmston poster
...and the bespoke version