A Celebration of British Manhole Covers

Yesterday was the last day of the show.(Taken from old Manholes Blog 27/06/06)

It was a great experience, and getting there was a big learning curve too, but i'm really pleased I made it and equally pleased that many people came in to see it, and left great comments in the visitors book, and left with the knowledge that they will never look at a manhole cover the same way again. A big thanks also to those who left some money behind, and left with a unique manhole T-shirt and the many who came back and left with more!, and some, you know who you are! with my manhole cover art.

I hope to do another show in London and other cities if they will take me, but its early days yet, but I thought I would share with you a few of what some vistors had wrote in the book -

Enchanting - Art and history combined - N&A Burrell

Tremendous! So good to see the colour and imagination and enthusiasm for something that most of us pass by without looking at!- J.Newman

Fabulous! - D.Allen

Brilliant! - D.Shaw

I love it! - S.Nicholson

Manhole art. Awesome s**t! - D. Mandelbaum

Whoa! - K.Mckenzie

Really liked your use of colour. Very effective visually, Liked it all + nice to meet you too- L.Aspell

Very interesting and great art work. Funky!!! - F.Was

Really neat concept and work - Inspirational! - J.Leith

A fascinating subject, used brilliantly. I will be looking down a looking down more when walking the streets from now on. - R.Mitchell

Excellent! - P.Littland(Retired ironmonger)

Wonderful! And a Captain Beefheart Fan! - K.Richardson

Fantastic- Colourful& unusual, beauty in the everday, Ta- Hugh

Awesome original Work! - L.Griffith

Well Cool.. - A.Warnquist

Great idea, manhole covers represent the unseen side of our cities. Superb! - D.Sumer

Best Designs of artwork i've seen in a while- Lovely!- R.Mayston

The mundane to the memorable. Well done! - S.Si

These are just a few from the book, but everybody left positive vibes and i'm pleased you could make it, if you didn't then hopefully another time, however you can always have your own gallery in your own home!

A big thankyou to the Landlord of the shop, and my best wishes to him.
Now..thanking a landlord doesn't happen often in this world does it!

Cheers

Jason