The Ralph Sparks & Sons Ltd Daylight Bakery (Stockton on Tees)

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A lovely sketch. Great to hear that the frontage was saved of what is a lovely piece of Art deco design.

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21/02/2024
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A fabulous Art deco building in Stockton on Tees. When this bakery closed the frontage was saved and the new apartments were built onto the back of it. This means that the main entrance is still in daily use. The clock is set to the last time the bakery closed it's doors. This pen and wash 'urban sketch' was done 'en plein air' into a Moleskine watercolour sketchbook using a Kaweco fountain pen and archive ink then painted with White Nights watercolours.

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Malcolm Davies GRA

I studied art at school in the early 1970's and my early paintings were all aircraft based. As my personal interests changed so did my artwork, and I moved into motor cycles and cars. My first car based commission in 1978 was for a Jensen CV8. In the years since then my artwork has goneā€¦

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