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The Salford Precinct paintings that pick up where Lowry left off
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt was a moment in time when Salford's shopping centre was the biggest social club in the city. Friends and neighbours would cluster to chat, gossip, and have a bite sat on a bench.
A family enjoying a fish and chip dinner; four elderly ladies sat side by side; the bustle of a new shopping mall. Shopping City or The Precinct, as it is still known today, opened in stages over 1971 and 72.
Six years later young artist, Philip Westcott, sold his first painting. It was called "Rainy Day on Worsley Green" and had been exhibited at Eccles Art Gallery, and went for £5. READ MORE: Inside the Meat House, the carnivore's dream that's brought Sao Paulo to Salford Precinct But that sale opened doors for Philip, which would lead to him doing 40 paintings based in and around The Precinct, capturing an era and setting him up a career teaching art, and as an accomplished artist in his own right.
Recently one of his works featured in Grayson Perry's television programme. Philip, 71, who taught at Ordsall High, St Patrick's in Eccles, and St George's High in Walkden, said: "I sold my first paintings at Eccles Art Gallery. "Then the curator of Salford Art Gallery, Michael Leber, invited me to exhibit at the Memorial Art Gallery in Swinton, where I was featured on Granada Reports.
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