Holcombe, 2025
Peter’s landscapes explore issues of wealth disparity and impending societal collapse in northern working class towns and cities, told through empty buildings that stand silently in their atrophy, stoically clinging on to their foundations, held in stasis in a nostalgic haze or as unsettling backdrops to dreams or prophecies about our hometowns.
About Holcombe:
This acrylic painting depicts Holcombe Close in Salford, the last row of houses still standing in the former High Street neighbourhood in Pendleton, now a ghost estate with mere footprints of what once were homes being reclaimed by nature. The owners of the pink house on the left have been in dispute with the council for over a decade after refusing what they regarded as a derogatory buyout offer their house, and have since been neglected by authority, and subjected to crime, vandalism and rat infestation, isolated in their effort to defiantly protect their home and former community from demolition.
About Holcombe:
This acrylic painting depicts Holcombe Close in Salford, the last row of houses still standing in the former High Street neighbourhood in Pendleton, now a ghost estate with mere footprints of what once were homes being reclaimed by nature. The owners of the pink house on the left have been in dispute with the council for over a decade after refusing what they regarded as a derogatory buyout offer their house, and have since been neglected by authority, and subjected to crime, vandalism and rat infestation, isolated in their effort to defiantly protect their home and former community from demolition.