“What makes looking at Spencer’s paintings today so refreshing is that they belong to that rarest of all traditions-the tradition of good painting.” Bridget Riley

“The finest painter of the new Manchester.” Anthony H Wilson.

Irwell: Afterlife by Liam Spencer

A recent exhibition which documented the return of wildlife to a once badly polluted industrial river. The exhibition was shown at The Whitaker in Rossendale in 2023, and Salford Museum and Art Gallery in 2025.