Dave Hartley

Dave has been producing evocative pencil drawings of the northern industrial landscape for many years.

He captures the rugged beauty of a forgotten time and skilfully immortalises it in a distinctive and unique style of graphite art.

'If Trevor Grimshaw recorded the fag-end of post industrial Britain, then surely Dave Hartley documents its prime.
With his wonderful images of smoking chimneys, old mills and factories, it is a lost landscape that evokes a pure feeling of Northern Art'
Northern Art Group

'Dave's introduction of the human element in his drawings emphasizes a more emotional impact, often lacking in Grimshaw's work. This new angle heralds great potential'
Dave Gunning, Todmorden Fine Art