Paul Cannon
Friary Place Gasworks

£195.00

Born and raised in the leafy environs of Epsom in Surrey but developed an interest in heavy industrial landscapes from around the age of four. This was due in part to his Grandma, who lived in Bolton, Lancashire. She would send local newspaper cuttings for Paul to keep in scrapbooks and the cuttings would invariably be of cotton mill chimneys and factories being pulled down and permanently destroyed. He started to draw his own fictional city maps and set them in the 1970’s. The reasoning for this allowed Paul to retain his own make-believe industrial landscapes forever, while the real World moved into a cleaner and technologically focused society.