Littleborough artist’s work sells for £3,500 at auction

A collection of work by the late Littleborough artist Ada Eastwood has sold at auction for £3,500.

20 pieces of work by the artist were snapped up at an auction at the Central Auction Rooms in Rochdale on Tuesday 2 September.

It was Mrs Eastwood’s wish that the whole collection be sold together.

Ada, of Hollingworth Road, came into the art world late after spending most of her life as an accounts clerk.

Mrs Eastwood became fascinated by the patterns and colours of the cloth produced at Rochdale Buckley Mill while she worked there in the 1960s.

She experimented with different types of fabric collage and was soon producing street scenes. These scenes were then shown at exhibitions in Littleborough Coach House, Salford, Bolton and Manchester.

A fan of her work, L.S. Lowry praised Mrs Eastwoods’ pieces after attending an exhibition of hers in 1975.

A spokesperson for the Central Auction Rooms said: “It was a good and busy auction. The people who attended were mainly local people coming from Littleborough but we did have one man from Barrow who bought a few pieces.”

Mrs Eastwood died in 1990 in her late eighties having survived her husband Ernest.