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

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

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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

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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.’

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

Vimto poster at Vimto HQ

Like all true Mancunians, I love Vimto - so much better than that Ribena stuff, which is only fit for Southern softies.

So imagine my delight when I got a commission from one of the Vimto family to paint a poster which reflects the company’s unique appeal not just in Manchester but across the world and especially in the Middle East.

The company was created by the Nichols family in Manchester, and remains in the family to this day, hence the headline Nichols and dimes to show how successful it has been.

Here is me presenting the framed poster to Vimto’s Commercial Controller James Nichols at the company’s headquarters in Newton-Le-Willows.

Such an honour!

Thanks to the lovely Mel in Pop Boutique on Oldham Street for being my model - another true Manc from Ancoats.

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Back 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

A 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.

Statement 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?