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Page last updated at 15:18 GMT, Tuesday, 17 November 2009

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In pictures: The Moor paintings

Painter Andy Cropper held an exhibition called The Moor: Present Memories, focusing on The Moor shopping area in Sheffield city centre. His artwork was displayed in shop windows on The Moor.

The Moor is due to be re-developed over the next few years. This painting features the balloon stall on The Moor.

The artwork focuses on Andy's own experiences of The Moor: "I've walked through it to get to college, to work, to shop, or just to dawdle." Now his artwork looks at the people who, like Andy, do their day-to-day tasks on The Moor.

Andy studied at the old Sheffield art college on Psalter Lane. He explains why he chose to paint these red roses for sale on The Moor: "This was a pure visceral reaction to the redness of the roses and the drips of water on the cellophane."

Andy's paintings are intensely life-like; many of them he painted from photographs.

"There was something about this group and their behaviour that almost mirrored the people that were milling around them," says artist Andy Cropper who painted these pigeons.