Up in town to see a new retail space which may soon be stocking my merchandise, and I spotted the moon still high in the sky.
I used to have work in a gallery which has unfortunately since closed, it was one of the East Market Street Arches which were reopened up as retail spaces in 2016. Here is a sketch I made at the time:
I was back this time to see a new shop within the Waverley Market which will hopefully soon be stocking ES merchandise but of of that in due course.
This sketch was drawn from my car looking to the currently covered in scaffolding) North Bridge. Did you spot the bus crossing the bridge?
The 19 newly renovated Victorian arches on East Market Street are now open and ready to serve, so I went for a stroll along Edinburgh’s newest shopping district.
Part of the £150 million New Waverley development which is transforming part of the Old Town, the Arches have been opened up and filled with some fantastic independent businesses, each of which deserve to be discovered.
I was invited to come along and sketch the launch party last week and these are my sketches from the evening. As you can see from the sketch above the lights from each arch can be seen from high up on North Bridge. If there descend the Scotsman Hotel steps onto Market Street and then head under the bridge to find the first of 19 Arches which increase in height the further down the cobbled street you venture.
