Greetings from Manchester, UK!

A big hello to all fellow urban sketchers, I feel very privileged to be joining you in Barcelona and like other correspondents on this Symposium blog, I am counting down the days until July!

Urban sketching has been on the periphery of what I do for a number of years, but it was only thanks to being invited to an Urban Sketchers Singapore private view last summer where I met the fabulous Tia Boon Sim and colleagues, that I felt really inspired to focus on this wonderful style of reportage drawing. Now almost a year on...I am completely addicted! 

Last October I started an informal Manchester urban sketching group with help from USK Correspondent Caroline Johnson who had recently returned to England from Rennes, France (now a good friend)! We are a small but committed group of sketchers and hopefully we'll be an official group soon.

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Watercolour & Pen, 2013

Bit about me...I'm an architect by profession and now full-time lecturer at Manchester School of Art. I'm a member of the Society of Architectural Illustration here in the UK but most importantly I am an urban sketcher! I was really anxious I wouldn't get a place at the Symposium and was absolutely thrilled when I did. I follow a number of you on flickr and I genuinely find your work - and approach to your work inspiring...it will be lovely to meet you all in person!


Here are a couple of my recent sketches - I am on flickr and this is my blog

Milan Cathedral, pen and watercolour, April 2013

All Saint's Gardens, Manchester, pen & watercolour, March 2013

And here I am sketching in London yesterday...(May 17th).

Southbank, London. pen & watercolour, May 2013

That's enough from me for now....happy urban sketching everyone and hope to see you in Barcelona!!