Down Our Street by Paul Horton

Capturing the essence of community spirit, Horton lets his subjects play in the street and have free reign of their territory and the place they are growing up in.

You can tell that this is a working class area, particularly highlighted by the fact that there are grey buildings with larger chimneys.

Perhaps from factories in the background. This is a perfect piece to make us see the relationship between neighbours in a community and how their spirits are collected in order to enjoy...

...the simplicity of play time.

Horton always manages to capture that vital essence of working class ethos within his practice and this is something in which allows his paintings to really stand out among his contemporaries.