The sulphur yellow breast of a grey wagtail. The outline of a roe deer silently springing by a barbed-wire fence. A silouhette of two swans and the speckled back of a trout just below the water's surface.
They are among a glorious collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and ink drawings created over a year by artist Liam Spencer. They are a faithful recording of the wildlife he saw while following the River Irwell from its source on the moors above Bacup to its head at Salford Quays where it joins the Manchester Ship Canal.
As reported in the Manchester Evening News Liam spent began his odyssey in December 2021. Now an exhibition of his work made while making the journey has opened at Whitaker Art Gallery and Museum in Rawtenstall.
