Liam Spencer

Liam Spencer (1964-) is a British artist.

Early life

Spencer was born in Burnley, Lancashire. He attended St Theodore's RC High School in the town. He went on to study at Burnley College and Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University).

Career

A lot of Spencer's paintings focus on Greater Manchester and North West England, such as Crown Chippy, Rawtenstall (2003), "Salford Panorama" (2000), "Time Square, New York" (2003). He has however, painted other parts of the world, such as a number of paintings which focus on New York City, Venice, Hong Kong, Shanghai and some in France and Spain. He is known for painting urban landscapes, and focussing on rain scenes.A popular format for his paintings have been the "Panoramas" long thin paintings that show popular scenes. A small number of paintings from film stills exist, a few watercolours can also be found.Spencer's work is exhibited in a number of art galleries, especially in the Manchester area. His most prominent exhibition was in 2000 in the Lowry Centre art gallery in Salford, and a number of his works also hang permanently in the Manchester Art Gallery. A retrospective of Liams works in 2006 at The City of Manchester Art Gallery proved a great success. This coincided with a short 10 minute documentary aired on the BBC series Inside Out that showed several of the collections of Liams work and aimed to show the popularity of Liams...
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