'The Waste Ground (Jervis Street)' Graphite Sketch

'End of Terrace (Burslem)' Graphite Sketch

"....from football crowds to crowds of shoppers, from one national sport to another...." 'The Lost Football Ground' #TheHighClearing @ianrpearsall.bsky.social @philshallcross.bsky.social @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social @barewall.bsky.social 📸 the Sentinel

It's been decided; Victoria Mill is closing at the end of this month after being sold to developers. It had an interesting history; a former silk ribbon weaving mill since 1857 .. an Antique Centre for the last 30 : www.victoriamillantiques.co.uk/history/ Stock reductions left, right & centre ..

'Backstreet Works (Fenton)' Graphite Sketch

"The Vale dropped 'Burslem' and headed for Hanley" 'The Lost Football Ground' #TheHighClearing @ianrpearsall.bsky.social @philshallcross.bsky.social @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social @barewall.bsky.social 📸 Steven Wallace

'Workings (Top of Lower Mayer St.)' Graphite Sketch

'Abandoned Shop (Hanley)' Graphite Sketch

'Across the Entry' Graphite Sketch

'Up to St. John Street' Graphite Sketch

'Waste Ground (Free Trade Street)' Graphite Sketch

'Rust-Red Doors (Joiner's Square)' Graphite Sketch

'Up to the Scrapyard (Fenton)' Graphite Sketch

'Three Pubs' Oggy's The White Hart George & Dragon (The Pint 'N' Pie) Smashing rooms😍

An incredible day! A gallery full of people all day long in a constant flow. People from these very streets telling their stories and remembering all the friends and family they shared them with. Street names; pubs, jobs, significant things all shared. A Summer of events in the making.. Come along!

Nice exhibition with really great pieces, pop into Two Doors Studio, Alsager, to see Ian Pearsall's latest exhibition. @ianrpearsall.bsky.social #art #exhibition

'Twyfords' Bitumen : Photograph Train travel fits my 'Modus Vivendi' and the best part of getting to the gallery is slicing through the post-industrial urbanscape of my inspiration, passing the tragic wreckage of these beautiful buildings on the way .. www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/post/city-of...

Making tracks in transient dreams, listening to the beating heart of the land swell in pride to a concerto through beech and fallen oak In awe we are...

Nature's eminence commanding awe Lost in splendour evermore...

'A Secret Lane' Graphite Sketch

'Juncture' Graphite sketch

'Tree-lined lanes (and heart-shaped puddles!)' Graphite sketch

- Brutal Land - Festival Drayton Centre. Market Drayton Now open .. all welcome! www.festivaldraytoncentre.com/index.php

Stopped in our tracks! We gazed in silence as Spring welcomed us with awe-inspiring fanfare... Hope pours forth, land lifted from a seemingly never-ending winter slumber. Senses aroused, imbued with magical miracles...

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

Over the last couple of weeks I have pulled together a comprehensive collection of my Six Towns Works. All in place; curated by Ruthie, and open to viewing as of tomorrow. An official opening will coincide with the 10th Birthday celebration of Two Doors Studio. www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/post/city-of...

'Workers (return Home)' Charcoal on Paper Private Collection Originally concieved as a 'mood piece' based on a historic photograph, I've had this work around for a long time until I recently framed it. Today it's off to a new home I'm delighted to say ..

'Moon (slips away .. ) Oil Paint Sketch

Spotted a few people only just got round to watching Small Prophets so I'm reposting this now that it makes sense to them too.

'Farm (fields of Battle)' Graphite Sketch on Map

If you see this post a monster

‘Crossing Road; Stream, and the approach of Night’ Charcoal and Varnish Sketch

STILL TIME! 👇

'Ploughed (West)' Charcoal and Varnish Sketch Quite the treat to see a field ploughed up to a forest edge!

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'Paths & Streams' Charcoal and Varnish Sketch

‘Sun Down’ Charcoal and Oil Paint Sketch Underfoot across fallow farm fields the soil is foamy and soft under a Winter crust. Our footsteps break and sink; pebbles as water-worn rounded as on a coastal beach reveal themselves ... The colour of the sky tells us that it's time to head back home.

Oliver's Mill, Burslem. Watercolour and charcoal.

Bottle Oven, Normacot. Pen and watercolour.

'North toward Home' Charcoal & Varnish sketch

‘A Black Afternoon’ Charcoal & Varnish sketch. 'Over wide open stretches of undulating fields the wind blew furiously, icy cold cutting like a razor. Clustered here and there were oases of timeless pools within black wet forests that fractured the driving force, dissipating it for sweet relief.'

'The Winter King (of the Hill)' Oil Paint

'The End Field (new beginnings..)' Charcoal and Oil Paint Sketch

'Track (South)' Oil Paint and Charcoal Sketch

'Cross Tracks (across a cold landscape)' Charcoal & Oil Paint Sketch

Jovial Foresters #Hanley #ThePotteries #StokeonTrent

Read a brutal headline today; 'Stoke-on-Trent becomes the first city in the UK to declare a heritage emergency' .. simultaneously found this in an interesting book of stories preserved on historic postcards and it illuminates how there's always something new to be found from a rich history!

'The Road to Chatcull' Mixed media on Paper Private Collection. Inspirational article by Reginald Crawford of the same title : The Road to Chatcull ko-fi.com/post/THE-ROA...