Fine art lover Sir Alex Ferguson joins brave painter’s fan club
Manchester United Manager Sir Alex Ferguson used his proven eye for talent when he bought a painting from a local Stockport painter.
The fine art collector bought the piece of art from Daniel Adams for an undisclosed sum.
Daniel, aged 36, bravely started painting after suffering a stroke that was brought on by a violent and vicious street attack. Although he only started painting a year ago, his work has proven to be very popular and he had his first exhibition in April this year at the Wolfgang Webster Gallery in Cheadle.
Sir Alex Ferguson contacted the Cheadle Gallery after seeing a picture of the painting that he now owns in a newspaper. The artwork depicts a man sitting near the Stockport Viaduct.
As a lifelong United fan, Daniel was over the moon when he was able to deliver the painting to the United Carrington training base.
“I couldn’t believe that Fergie had seen my painting and liked it. He was an unbelievably nice bloke, he told me he liked the work and to carry on painting. I just feel like I am up in the sky about things, as if in the last six months all of a sudden I have done really well and I hope it carries on. I turned to art for something to do and it helped me recover, but I never thought this would happen.”
The Cheadle local who is a father of four, was viciously attacked on Valentines Day 2010 when he walked home from a party. Although Police issued an appeal, no one was ever caught.
The morning after the attack, he suffered a stroke that left him unable to talk or move. It has been a long road to recovery, and Daniel still struggles with his memory and his speech.
Paul Wolfgang Webster a renowned photographer and owner of the Wolfgang Webster Gallery said: “Mr Ferguson is a serious collector of art. He bought the piece not for any other reason than he liked the work and its aesthetics and liked Daniel as a painter and what he had produced. He could have bought any work but he saw Daniel’s and admired what he saw. What Daniel has done is an incredible story in itself, to actually cause this interest is absolutely brilliant.”