Michael Gutteridge

I mostly paint unique, bizarre, sensually vibrant urban landscapes or cityscapes usually of the North of England. These cityscapes eclectically pool diverse influences and involve spontaneous, often instinctive forms of distortion expressed via colour, proportion, perspective, innate harmonious relationships and an incongruous juxtaposition of styles. Sometimes, I am specifically trying to convey existentially disorientating feelings through these techniques and sometimes other types of emotion and general sensual vibrancy. I try to walk a delicate balnce between planning what I do and allowing a painting to have a organic life of its own. My paintings have been used promotionally by the University of Lancaster, the University of Manchester, in pop videos, on book jackets, in magazines, and made into postcards by the Manchester Tourist Office. They are exhibited regularly and are in private collections around the world.

Exhibitions:

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Art Gallery, 2000
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Art Gallery, 2001
The Octagon Theatre, Bolton, Spring 2004,
Adlington Village Hall, Cheshire, February, 2004
The Bowdon Rooms, Altrincham, Cheshire, March 2004
The Big Heath, Knutsford, May 2004
The Cheshire Show, Tabley, June 2004.
Macclesfield Town Hall, Macclesfield Cheshire, (in aid of East Cheshire Hospice) Sep. 2004.
Manchester Art Show, G-Mex, Manchester, October 2004
"Surreal City." The Portico Library & Gallery, Manchester, September 2005,
Macclesfield Town Hall, Macclesfield Cheshire October 2006.
"Manchester Vision." Blyth Gallery, Brazil St, Manchester, January 2007,
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Art Gallery, 2007
"Rhapsody in Red Brick." The Portico Library & Gallery, Manchester, May 2008
Firbob and Peacock Gallery, Knutsford, Cheshire, September 2008
Urbis, Manchester, September 2009
"All That Jazz." Mooch Gallery, Feb. 2010
Buy Art Fair, Spinningfields, Manchester, October 2010
Duke's Oak Gallery, Cheshire, October-December 2011.
Bury Art Gallery, Bury, Lancs (as part of Bury Art Week in aid of Bury Hospice) July 2011.
Buy Art Fair, Spinningfields, Manchester, October 2011.
Buy Art Fair, Spinningfields, Manchester, September 2012.
Bury Art Gallery, Bury, May 2013.
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Art Gallery, 2013
Buy Art Fair, Spinningfields, Manchester, September 2013.
Granada Studios, Manchester, September 2014.
Bury Art Gallery, Bury, May 2015
Granada Studios, Manchester, September 2015.
Bury Art Festival, Bury Art Gallery, April-May 2016.
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Art Gallery, 2016
Butterfly Fine Art Gallery, December 2016

Tags:

Expressionism, cityscapes, buildings, streets, landscapes.