About the artist

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Simone Ridyard qualified as an architect and is now a senior lecturer in Interior Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has an international profile as an architectural illustrator through her work with Urban Sketchers.
Simone set up Urban Sketchers Manchester in 2012 and her own research centres on architectural reportage and in-situ drawing. Her workshops specialise in understanding perspective drawing.
Simone wrote Archisketcher: Drawing Buildings, Cities and Landscapes (North Light Books 2015). She has contributed to several publications on Urban Sketching and has co-edited two Manchester Sketchbooks, published by Mancunian Books. Simone has collaborated with Winsor & Newton, Derwent and The Big Draw on publicised art campaigns.

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