News

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Current & Upcoming

• Interior Design Drawing Book - more information coming soon.

• In Fine Detail: Perspective for Artists, Architects and Creatives (David & Charles), publication August 2026.

• Didsbury Art Festival - Plein Air Competition Judge, June 2026.

• Manchester Art Fair - exhibiting, 2026.

 

Recent Highlights

• Urban Sketchers Symposium, Poznań - Faculty Instructor, August 2025.

• Manchester Art Fair - exhibiting, 2025.

• Sketching Retreat - online workshop instructor, 2023–2025.

• Stockport Town of Culture - drawing workshop at the Hat Museum, October 2023.

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Publications

• In Fine Detail: Perspective for Artists, Architects and Creatives (David & Charles), August 2026.

• Simone Ridyard Sketchbook (Mancunian Books), November 2023.

• The World of Urban Sketching (Stephanie Bower, 2022) - featured Manchester artist.

• Manchester Sketchbook 2 (Mancunian Books, 2018) - contributing artist.

• Manchester Sketchbook (Mancunian Books, 2016) - contributing artist.

• Archisketcher (North Light Books, 2015).

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Selected Exhibitions, Workshops & Media

• Local organiser, 7th Annual International Urban Sketching Symposium, Manchester (2016).

• Urban Sketchers Symposium Faculty Instructor: Chicago (2017), Porto (2018), Amsterdam (2019), Poznań (2025).

• Urban Sketchers London 10th Anniversary Symposium - workshop instructor (2022).

• Salford Museum & Art Gallery - Urban Sketchers Manchester exhibition (2018).

• Link here to my online Guardian feature 'Sketch in the City' (March 2018)

• Collaboration with Derwent and Cass Art, including short film (2021).

• BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live interview (2014).

• Sky News live painting feature at the Labour Party Conference (2014).

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