An old school friend wanted a poster of Silverdale on Morecambe Bay, but one that was personal to him and his family. And here’s the result, a 61x91cm poster in a black frame, showing Alastair with his dog Daisy next to the famous Pepper Pot folly and the Giant’s Seat overlooking the bay. The Lots is an area of Silverdale, by the way.
Wilmslow poster, by Eric Jackson, Statement Artworks
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
Disley 'Disleyland' poster, by Eric Jackson, Statement Artworks
Disley is a nice Cheshire village close to the Derbyshire Peak District and Dales. Which makes it kind of schizophrenic. A bit Cheshire Setty, a bit rustic Derbyshire. And just to confuse things, the majestic Lyme Park used to be managed by Stockport Council, which is in Greater Manchester, and the equally majestic Lyme Hall is a National Trust property. No wonder Darcy in the TV series of Pride and Prejudice, which was partly filmed at Lyme Park, looked so befuddled when he emerged, soaking wet, from that lake. Joking aside, Lyme Park is THE park of South Manchester/Cheshire, and perhaps THE park of the north. Of course it can be bloody annoying round the car park at weekends, with families venturing little further than 300 yards, but the hinterland and beyond is magnificent, with amazing walks, views and wildlife, including herds of deer. Lyme is sublime in Disleyland! This poster is available to buy at www.statementartworks.com
Disley ‘Disleyland’ poster, by Eric Jackson, Statement Artworks
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
Statement Artworks framed posters for sale!
Last week I took down my exhibition at the Red Willow Bar in Macclesfield, and half immediately went to the Fig and Fennel restaurant, which is due to open soon in Poynton. So I’ve got framed A3 posters left over, all in great nick. Even so, because they’ve been on a wall for a while, I’m selling them for £50 instead of £60.
Seen here in the garden with a man who looks as though he’s been Tangoed, namely me, they are:
The Manchester Alphabet
The Heatons
Macclesfield
Edgeley
Marple
Hats off to Stockport
Alderley Edge
Manchester’s 10 Commandments
Hale
You can see them in detail at www.statementartworks.com
It’s first come first served, so if you want to buy one, or a few or even the whole lot, just email me on statementartworks@gmail.com
Cheers - Eric
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
Vote this way, you know it makes sense!
Time to vote! But just to put aside all the venom that’s circulating around this election for a moment, I’d like to put forward my manifesto on behalf of the Let’s Have A Party Party (Manchester branch). It’s available as a poster at www.statementartworks.com
EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION
Birmingham, England’s second city? You’ve got to be joking.
SCRAP HS2!
Half an hour off the train journey to London – who cares?
ZEROL TOLERANCE!
Of lazy London-centric media folk who use ‘grim’ or ‘oop’ whenever they refer to the north.
LET US EAT CAKE!
Eccles or Chorley ones, please.
CROWN A MANC MONARCH!
It’s either King Colin of Bell or King Eric of Cantona.
ALL STAND FOR THE MANC ANTHEM!
Station Approach by Elbow, an ode to Piccadilly, the gateway to the best city in the world.
BUILD A WALL!
Those Yorkshire folk have got to be stopped migrating over the Pennines to civilisation somehow.
BETTER DEAD THAN RED!
No child shall be encouraged to support Liverpool. Ever! Same goes for Leeds United and Chelsea.
A NEW BANK HOLIDAY!
In honour of Tony Wilson, our late spiritual leader.
SELF-RULE FOR CHORLTON!
Recognise the right of the trendy enclave to operate entirely according to its own liberal, yoghurt-knitting, vegan agenda. Build its new parliament as an extension to the Unicorn co-operative vegan superstore.
STRONG AND STABLE!
Old Toms all round, on prescription! The beer, one of Greater Manchester’s strongest and produced by Robinsons Brewery, is laughing juice and after two you’re barely stable. So lovely though.
RISE UP, MANCUNIANS, AND PARTY!
Nothing new there, but let’s not do any more of that 24-hour stuff.
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!
Let’s call a truce with our nice Scouse neighbours over in Liverpool. Don’t like that idea? Well just calm down, calm down.
P is for Parrs Wood in the special Manchester Alphabet
I was born in central Manchester and lived, until the age of six, just off Parrs Wood Road in Burnage. So it’s quite poignant in a way that I should be returning to the area, at Parrs Wood School on Saturday for the Christmas Fair. And to mark the occasion I’ve produced a special edition of my Manchester Alphabet, which now features Parrs Wood under P and in the headline.
I’m taking 10 A4 mounted prints of it to the fair, but you can alway email to order a print of any size at statementartworks@gmail.com
The paragraph reads:
‘P is for Parrs Wood - a pleasure palace, a leafy road, a top school on the banks of the River Mersey and the gateway to Manchester. Also for Pips, mostly a handbag disco, but which had the Roxy Room, the real birthplace of Manchester Indie music.’
Manchester Alphabet, featuring Parrs Wood
This is a party political blog on behalf of all parties
Welcome to the party!
I’ve never considered my posters to be political. Always wanted to spread a bit of fun rather than get people’s knickers in a twist.
However, I recently looked at my market stall and realised that there is something there for people across the political spectrum, albeit unintentionally (apart from one) by me.
So there’s the Northern Mother poster - which has been flying recently - and ardent socialists could read whatever they want to in that. Social realism, heroic Soviet-era pose. Man the barricades with Jeremy!
Then there’s the Manc-hattan poster, which could be viewed as a homage to capitalism, with those giant Deansgate skyscrapers, and Willie Gladstone in the foreground. More phallic conservatism than you can shake a Boris plonker at! G&Ts all round!
And that brings me to the Lib-dems, who no one can possible hate but who neither can most people get passionate about. Goodwill to all men, women, children, dogs, non-binary, sexually-fluid hamsters, you name it. A sort of Christmassy type vibe then, reflected in my Mancunian Christmas card. Raise your egg-nog glasses to that!
Finally, there’s the Manchester Manifesto, which is political, but in a non-party way. Power to Manchester!
So take your pick, cast your vote and keep your fingers crossed!
By the way, the Northern Mother poster is a tribute to my late mum, and the dedication reads:
Dedicated to Annie Jackson. Born in Ardwick, Manchester, shortly after the First World War, served with the armed forces during the Second World War, married the boy next door, had five kids, two of them stillborn, widowed before she was 40, brought up her children while working as a waitress in a factory, final weekly pay packet £32. Died of cancer aged 62. Heroine. Lady. Dancer. Worker. Fighter.
Make of that what you will.
This weekend we are at Altrincham Market (Saturday and Sunday) and Treacle Market in Macclesfield (Sunday). See you there.
www.statementartworks.com
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
Must have made it - I'm in a glossy home magazine
Jules Davies states in the latest copy of Your Home Magazine that ‘I didn’t want my home to look boring.’
But quite why Jules and her husband Tim, who live in Brighton, have a framed A2 copy of my Warrington poster taking pride of place in their bedroom remains a mystery. Not that it’s boring - hopefully far from it - but there’s no mention in the piece of a Warrington connection.
Buy hey, who cares?
See you at Stockport Market tomorrow. Cheers - Eric
www.statementartworks.com
There’s the Warrington poster propped up on the sideboard!
Stockport poster in portrait shape
I've had so many requests to produce a portrait shape alternative for my original Stockport poster that I've finally gone ahead and done it, with a few tweaks here and there, and here it is. However, it will only be available from Saturday onwards at The Warren, near Stockport Market Place, and then on general sale from August. www.statementartworks.com
Hats off to award-winning Hatters
My Stockport poster takes cover design of the year
One of my works has helped a Stockport firm win a national award.
Hatters, a leading North West promotional merchandise company based in Heaviley, won the cover design of the year at the Advantage Group brochure launch event with an adaptation of my Hats off to Stockport poster.
The finishing touches were done by Future Design, another Stockport-based company.
Hosted at the 4-star Georgian country house hotel Sopwell House, the Advantage Group brochure launch takes place annually, bringing together merchandise distributors from across the country.
Hatters has just celebrated its 25th anniversary, and it seemed fitting that it should be marked by an image of the iconic Battersby Hat Works in Offerton - a symbol of Stockport’s industrial heritage.
Founded in 1994 by Managing Director Jo Shippen, Hatters has grown year on year and has worked with scores of national and blue-chip brands.
It specialises in promotional merchandise, print management and product fulfilment – including ordering of stock, storage and delivery.
Jo Shippen said: “I’m delighted that Hatters has been recognised for the brochure cover this year.”
“It means a lot to me – and the team, that it has coincided with our 25th anniversary and I couldn’t be prouder to be celebrating our milestone achievement in this way.”
“We couldn’t have done this without Eric Jackson from Statement Artworks and the team at Future Design for pulling it all together for us. It’s truly been a team effort.”
The winning cover design, and right, the original.
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
Altrincham weekend
We are at Altrincham all this weekend. Well, I say ‘we’, that should be Jane, my wife, as I’m swanning off to London to see a certain football match on Saturday, and staying over. Slacker! Anyway, there will be all my usual posters, cards and magnets, plus the new Edgeley, Monton and Manc-hattan ones. Go and say hello to Jane. www.statementartworks.com
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.
