Bridging Generations: Philip R. Westcott, L. S. Lowry and The Northern School of Art

Recently, I have become aware of a couple of items that made me realize that I started my artistic journey nearly fifty years ago. On a newsfeed I saw that a local school was using one of my early paintings as a teaching resource, and I also saw that some of my early cityscapes were coming up for auction. 

Over the years, being an artist from Salford, I have often been asked by researchers, publicists etc. to comment about L. S. Lowry and at times how my work relates to his. I never really thought deeply about this until recently when I was asked to give a talk about my paintings to the art club.
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Before I began my talk, the organizer introduced me and talked about my links to Lowry and his artwork. Afterwards, he gave me his notes and now a couple of months later, having thought about it, I decided to make this video which sums up my feelings.