'The Lockdown Triptych', 2020
Name: ‘The Lockdown Triptych, 2020
aka The Leverton Gardens Towers (also, The Lansdowne Towers), Sheffield.
Left: ‘Keating House’, 2020
Centre: ‘‘Wiggen House’, 2020
Right: ‘Gregory House‘, 2020
Measurements: 3 canvases - for each individual canvas, height: 100cm (39.3”) x canvas width: 100cm (39.3”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price:£6,000.00. They are available individually, each being £2500 . If you are interested in contacting me about these works please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: The paintings are supplied without frames.
Location: Leverton Gardens, Sheffield. - Google Maps link
Name: ‘The Lockdown Triptych, 2020
aka The Leverton Gardens Towers (also, The Lansdowne Towers), Sheffield.
Left: ‘Keating House’, 2020
Centre: ‘‘Wiggen House’, 2020
Right: ‘Gregory House‘, 2020
Measurements: 3 canvases - for each individual canvas, height: 100cm (39.3”) x canvas width: 100cm (39.3”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price:£6,000.00. They are available individually, each being £2500 . If you are interested in contacting me about these works please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: The paintings are supplied without frames.
Location: Leverton Gardens, Sheffield. - Google Maps link
Name: ‘The Lockdown Triptych, 2020
aka The Leverton Gardens Towers (also, The Lansdowne Towers), Sheffield.
Left: ‘Keating House’, 2020
Centre: ‘‘Wiggen House’, 2020
Right: ‘Gregory House‘, 2020
Measurements: 3 canvases - for each individual canvas, height: 100cm (39.3”) x canvas width: 100cm (39.3”) x canvas depth: 1.8cm (0.7“)
Medium: Acrylic and oil paint on 12oz acrylic primed cotton duck canvas on a wooden stretcher-frame.
Price:£6,000.00. They are available individually, each being £2500 . If you are interested in contacting me about these works please contact me via my contact page.
Frame: The paintings are supplied without frames.
Location: Leverton Gardens, Sheffield. - Google Maps link
A bit of text appropriate to the paintings follows.
I'd been trying to collect photos of these three buildings for a long time and I found it fascinating that on this night the quality of light and the luminous, hot, over-saturated blue of the sky, along with the emptiness of the streets, joined together to create something uncanny about these three towers.
The buildings resonated with the foreboding of what we were heading into. The windows full of warmth and light contrast starkly with the eerie emptiness and silence surrounding the towers.
I pass these buildings all the time but there was something about that night and the absence of people that diverged from the life happening within. There is something about the enclosing nature of the towers that describe containment in a way that a representation of empty streets lack. This is not just peoples' homes being contained but a whole community.
It has been unnerving to see my empty depictions of Sheffield become a norm for the city and beyond for several months.
It was 20th March the last Friday night the pubs and bars were open before lockdown started on the 23rd. Also the day I believe I started to show symptoms of COVID, which I at first ignored. By the end of the following day I was self-isolating. Luckily the illness was like a bad case of flu. For many that has not been the case. Unfortunately, that same day I discovered a friend of mine had passed from COVID.
▲ A video showing all the layers that went into the creation of ‘The Lockdown Triptych’, 2020.
▲ ‘The Lockdown Triptych: Keating House’, 2020
The first of the 'Lockdown Triptych' sitting on the left is 'Keating House'. As seen from Boston Street in a similar position to that taken for the view of Wiggen House but turned 90 degrees facing roughly towards the sunset. The gardens that you can see (Leverton Gardens) are a result of the renovations that took place between 2007 and 2009. The reference image with being taken late March shows the cherry blossom in the trees in the foreground of the painting coming into bloom.
The three towers together are known as the 'Leverton Gardens Towers' but also known locally as the 'Lansdowne Development Towers' too (also the ‘Lansdowne Complex’ - it can get a it confusing when looking at different sources). The three towers sit alongside the Lansdowne Estate. The building work on the towers was started in 1963 and completed in 1964 by M J Gleeson on behalf of Sheffield County Borough Council. They received their current predominantly grey exterior cladding when all three towers were refurbished between 2007 and 2009.
▲ ‘The Lockdown Triptych: Wiggen House’, 2020
The second of the 'Lockdown Triptych', 'Wiggen House' sits centrally in the three paintings. Somehow in the paintings personalities of each tower have arisen that may at first seem absurd.
▲ ‘The Lockdown Triptych: Gregory House’, 2020
The last of the 'Lockdown Triptych', sitting on the right hand side of the three paintings is 'Gregory House'.The view is a familiar Sheffield view looking up from London Road. You can see the pub Barry's Bar on the left of the painting and on the right the wall of the noodle bar Yama Sushi.
