Brentford Community Stadium

24 October 2018

[John Webb] Brentford Football Club have just lost their reasonably effective Head Coach to rivals Aston Villa, replaced by his assistant.  Result, a plummet down the Championship table. However our new stadium rises up spectacularly just north of Kew Bridge. The steel frame for the South Stand is complete and work has started for the terraces of the east and west stands. It will soon be revealing the skeleton shape of a stadium.

I have just completed 4 more progress sketches - other 3 on Facebook - this one a couple of cherry pickers/steel fixers at the corner of the South Stand where it abuts the road. It is close! I had just finished and was leaving when I saw this 'stop me in my tracks' geometric contre-jour. Watercolour wash; marker pen/brush drawing.

Brentford Community Stadium

Brentford Football Club/Brentford Community Stadium

[John Webb] 

Brentford have a long and distinguished history in west London. Once in the top league, they have been through many difficult times but more recently seen huge progression upwards through League 2, League 1, and now a consistent top half finisher in the Championship – in 2015 we made a serious challenge to get to the Premier League by reaching the Championship playoffs.

This progression includes plans for a new stadium. Whilst longer in the planning than construction, at last the site has been cleared and construction is well under way.

As my son and I have been season ticket holders for a few years it was a natural instinct to draw it as it happens, documenting the progress towards what will be one of the most significant moments in the club’s history.

BFC and their development partner Be have arranged site access so I can make an artist-eye view of the journey towards our new era at Lionel Road.

Site clearance  April – July 2017

Groundworks & piling  April – June 2018

Brentford Football Club/Brentford Community Stadium