For more than 10 years, Dave Hartley has been creating dramatic pencil drawings of the Northern industrial environment.
Dave Hartley’s work, which is influenced by Trevor Grimshaw, Adolphe Valette, and Harry Rutherford, depicts the rough beauty of a vanished environment that was once so prevalent in the towns of Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, and Stockport.
Dave, originally from Hyde and currently living in Stockport, searches for relics of a bygone era and masterfully immortalizes them in a distinctive and unique graphite art style.
Dave Hartley’s original drawings are currently found in numerous private collections, indicating that he is on the rise.