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Road to Eden 13 (0)
Acrylic on canvas £975 framed. 85cm x 70cm.
Framed in waxed ash with paler insert. Based on drawings of the view above the famous A686 Hartside Pass Road from Penrith to Alston looking towards Renwick with Carlisle and Dumfriesshire beyond. A motorcyclist cruises down past the shepherds hut. Rejected from Lakes Artists Society Summer Show 2010.0 |
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Grasmoor (0)
Oil on canvas. £895 Unframed. 0cm x 0cm.
Unframed. View of Grasmoor, Whiteside and Raven Crag from Mockerkin How in NW Cumbria. Heavy cloud rolls in from Ireland in November 2009 and dumps its load in the Lakeland fells. 0 |
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Blanket Bog (North Pennine Moor 43) (0)
oil on canvas £1600 unframed. 122cm x 91cm.
Unframed, 3cm deep edges painted dark brown. High up on a North Pennine moorland watershed a low sky rolls in from the west with clouds back-lit by the sun. Here and there gaps in the clouds reveal bright light beyond. The moors are an alternative world where humans cannot survive easily but which for wildlife hovers between abundance in summer and cold wasteland in winter. Beneath the surface lies a 10 000 year blanket of accumulated peat covering the glacial clay. To walk on this and hear the redshank is to be carried away from everyday human concerns.0 |
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Blanket Bog Watershed (NPM 1) (0)
Oil on baord. Framed. £850. 0cm x 0cm.
Floating framed in dark stained polished oak. Low clouds from the west brush over a moorland hill in the North Pennines. A rich eco-system grows on a deeping blanket of post glacial peat. One metre of peat accumulates every 1000 years over the boulder clay storing carbon away for millenia to come.0 |
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Road to Eden 11 (0)
oil and acrylic on canvas £950. 85cm x 70cm.
Framed in lightly limed ash with paler insert. View of the vale of Eden from Hartside Pass looking towards Penrith with Blencathra and Keswick beyond. Based on drawings made on location. Work in progress.0 |
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Wuthering Heights 2 (0)
Oil on board £1300 framed. 92cm x 89cm.
Floating framed in dark stained polished oak. Based on a view from the footpath leading up to Top Withins where the fictional mansion Wuthering Heights belonging to Emily Bronte's complex character Heathcliffe is assumed to be set. A bracing late summer day with a westerly curling over the edge of the moors.0 |
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Springtime near Hexham, (N001) (0)
Oil on canvas £2050 framed. 101cm x 76cm.
Framed in waxed ash with insert. Based on sketches done on location around the Devils Water valley south of Hexham in Northumberland. Spring sunlight dapples the grass on which the early morning cows sit. Jackdaws caper above the trees. 0 |
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Meander under Black Band (NPM49) (0)
Oil on canvas. £495. 50cm x 60cm.
Floating framed in dark stained polished oak. The heavy rains of November 2009 seep out and drain off the slopes of Black Band into the swollen river South Tyne at the meander by Peter Eliot's yard.0 |
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Sailing By (NPM 47) (0)
Oil on board £495. 0cm x 0cm.
Framed in hand painted beech floating frame. A fleet of clouds sail over the horizon. In the North Pennines one is close to the clouds. Complex layers of condensed water vapour veil the blue sky. Such forms are in part a repsonse to the land form. With climate change these volumes of sky-water are set to increase.0 |
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Cross Gill and Cross Fell, (NPM 46) (0)
Oil on canvas £395 Framed. 51cm x 41cm.
Box canvas, side painted, floating frame - hand painted. Memory of the view from Loaning Head over to the Pennine Way near Cross Gill.0 |
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River Dusk, Garrigill( NPM42) (0)
Oil on canvas £375 Framed. 41cm x 51cm.
Floating framed in dark stained polished oak. A view of the South Tyne river near Garrigill where I take the dog for a walk every night. This one painted after seeing a dull warm glow in the sky reflected softly in the river below with the truss footbridge spanning the banks. Currently on show at the Calder Gallery, Hebden Bridge , West Yorkshire.0 |
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Black Burn under Cross Fell with Quarry House, (NPM 17) (0)
Oil on board £1500 Framed. 75cm x 79cm.
Dark brown polished wood bespoke frame (Simpsons Bros. of Skelton, Cumbria). One of a series about the Black Burn valley which drains the north eastern slopes of Cross Fell the highest fell on the Pennine hills. The painting changed a lot in its creation just as the clouds and sun move and the grass grows.
Now available as a limited edition pigment ink giclee print £49 + p&p mounted, or £79 +p&p framed.0 |
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Cloud base 800m (NPM 25) (0)
oil on board £850 framed. 0cm x 0cm.
Floating framed in polished stained dark oak. Clouds roll low over the blanket bogs of the North Pennines. An RAF jet screeches silently back to base. A glimmer of sunlight breaks through here and there. A hill of uncertain size or distance surfaces through the shallow dome of peat bog. Currently on loan to Alston House Hotel, Alston, Cumbria.0 |
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North Pennine Transhumance, (NPM 20) (0)
Oil on board £1700 framed. 106cm x 84cm.
Floating framed in simple dark stained polished oak. An imaginary Hartside Pass road twists and turns up the wild open moorlands of the North Pennine transhumance land as autumn clouds roll up from the Vale of Eden just grazing the Cross Fell ridge. A derelict lime kiln sits crumbling by the road side, snow markers remind drivers of a past era of cooler climate and peat bogs continue to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The summer shepherds from the Eden have long disappeared but their huts remain isolated on the slopes of Cross Fell. A 21st century Romantic landscape. On show at the Calder Gallery, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.0 |
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Entry Level, North Pennines, (NPM 18) (0)
Oil on board £1500 framed. 79cm x 75cm.
Framed in simple dark stained wood. Based on a derelict lead mining entrance at Nenthead in the North Pennines. Three Swaledales graze from stage left to stage right. Clouds roll backstage. Strong illumination from stage left.
Now available as a limited edition pigment ink giclee print £49 + p&p mounted, or £79 +p&p framed.
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Under Cross Fell, North Pennine Moor 35 (0)
oil on canvas SOLD. 46cm x 56cm.
Looking up the silvery riband of the Black Burn river to the layered slopes of Cross Fell, the highest and wildest mountain in the Pennines famed for its sublime views over Cumbria, Teesdale and Scotland. Low pressure down wind of Cross Fell generates its own stream of clouds like the cooling towers of a power station. Currently on show at the Calder Gallery, Hebden Bridge , West Yorkshire.0 |
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The Calling,Burnhope Seat, North Pennine Moor 36 (0)
oil on canvas SOLD. 76cm x 61cm.
Memory of a walk over the border between Cumbria and County Durham where peat hags are guarded by redshanks in the cooling wind at dusk. Currently on show at the Calder Gallery, Hebden Bridge , West Yorkshire.0 |
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Blue Road to Hartside (NPM51) (0)
Oil on calico £650 framed. 101cm x 45cm.
Floating framed in cherry. A mysteriously blue road sweeps up the moors to Hartside top. The distant blue of Cross Fell guards the left horizon.0 |
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Arms across the Valley (NPM 7) (0)
Oil on canvas £1600 unframed. 122cm x 91cm.
A group of hunters emerge over the browe of a hill as the military jets chase up the valley and the mists cling to the sodden moorland.0 |
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After the Rain, Cross Gill.(NPM45) (0)
Oil on canvas £425 framed. 51cm x 41cm.
Box canvas, side painted, floating frame - hand painted. Mist hugs the ground as the rains clear over Cross Gill and Cross Fell.0 |
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Light on the Black Burn, (NPM 37) (0)
Oil on canvas SOLD. 41cm x 51cm.
Box canvas, side painted.A patch of sunlight moves swiftly across the silvery Black Burn river near Alston. Gone in a blink.0 |
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Afternoon Sun Catching the Moorland Top, (NPM 33) (0)
Oil on canvas £450 Framed. 51cm x 51cm.
Box canvas, side painted, bespoke floating frame - hand painted. Winter sun illuminates the snow dusted tops of the moors. Melt water drains off the peat bog through deep meandering gullies. A rabbit sits alert behind a tussock.0 |
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Evening Rain, Bolts Law and Sikehead (NPM 40) (0)
Oil on board £950 Framed. 110cm x 71cm.
Platinum moulded wood frame with ivory insert. Painted from sketches and memory. After days of moorland rain began to ease, a strange light permeated the veils of thin mist towards sunset over Bolts Law on the borders of Northumberland and County Durham near Blanchland.0 |
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Hartside Pass to Eden, (Hartside 9) (0)
Oil on canvas £695 Framed. 76cm x 61cm.
Box canvas, side painted, bespoke floating frame - hand painted. Imagining a very hot dry Vale of Eden at sunset where the earth is Devonian orange and the shadows Jordanian blue. Odd to see snow markers along the side of the road. Paint never really captures the intense radiant light of sunset.0 |
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After the Rains 3, Allendale. NPM 8 (0)
Oil on canvas £550 . 47cm x 47cm.
Framed in dark stained and waxed oak. Based on drawings in upper West Allendale where old lead miners small holdings lie derelict overlooking a stream valley cutting through the limestone and sandstone cyclothems which characterise the North Pennine moors. The moorland bogs were full to overflowing after days of rain. Rejected from lakes Artists Society Summer Show 2010.0 |
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Old Mine Buildings, Garrigill, (NPM 39) (0)
oil on canvas NFS. 76cm x 61cm.
Box canvas, side painted, floating frame - hand painted. Frosty morning overlooking Low Skydes farm, gritter lorry in the distance, Cross Fell commanding the horizon like a sleek white lion. Based on sketches and memeory.0 |
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Lake District Exursion (0)
Oil on canvas £450 unframed. 51cm x 51cm.
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Dog Walk North Pennines (0)
Oil on board £795 Framed. 59cm x 53cm.
Framed in dark polished oak by Simpson Bros. of Skelton, Cumbria . Imaginary North Pennine winter landscape with lens clouds over West Allendale and Killhope Law. A tiny figure of a man walks with a dog over a well remembered path.0 |
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Chevron Day, North Pennines, (NPM 26) (0)
Oil on calico SOLD. 92cm x 25cm.
Floating framed in cherry. Painting inspired by road journeys through the North Pennine dales such as South Tynedale and Upper Weardale. The clouds sweep low over the peat moors and a flock of ravens rolls around in the turbulent air.0 |
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Road to Eden, (Hartside 6) (0)
Oil on canvas SOLD. 73cm x 110cm.
Dark polished wood frame. 5th of a series of paintings about the famous A686 Hartside Pass from Alston Moor to the Vale of Eden with the lake District mountains on the western horizon.0 |
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Moon over Ashgill, (NPM41) (0)
oil on canvas SOLD. 41cm x 51cm.
Box canvas, side painted, floating frame - hand painted. Memory of a mid winter moon over the moors above Ashgill near Garrigill from the Pennine Way.0 |
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Evening Chimneys, Sikehead (0)
Oil on calico on board £1800. 155cm x 93cm.
Unframed. Based on drawings made at Sikehead under Bolts Law hill between Blanchland in Northumberland and Rookhope in Weardale (North Pennine moors).This is a location I have returned to many times because it has a powerful sense of space and history. There are old wagon ways (C2C) a lead smeting flue, an engine house chimney, a pumping house with chimney, a mine (Sikehead) and a reservoir for the mine. All this is set in a heather moorland well known for grouse shooting but criss crossed with public footpaths. There are a series of old ruined farm houses leading down from the moor towards Edmundbyers with much of their interiors still intact. From Bolts Law on a clear day you can see to the Scottish Borders, across to Newcastle and the North Sea and over to Cross Fell and the Lake District Fells beyond.0 |
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Lapwing Spring, Allendale (NPM 30) (0)
Oil on canvas SOLD. 41cm x 51cm.
Box canvas, side painted, floating frame - hand painted. Based on sketches in Allendale, North Pennines. The lapwings do there spring time thing.0 |
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Onwards and Upwards (0)
Oil on canvas £1800 Unframed. 120cm x 95cm.
Unframed with darke painted edges 4cm deep. An imaginary TESCO lorry crawls up the A686 road to Hartside top declaring that no land however wild and remote is untouched by the network of global enterprise. Although the lorry has not yet been spotted on this particular road, like the spread of the grey squirrel, it is possibly only a matter of time before the prediction comes true. Latest news is that TESCO have now made a delivery to my home which is only 6 miles from Hartside Pass. Cross Fell on the left horizon is the highest point of a dramatic sedimentary Pennine escarpment flanking the eastern side of the Vale of Eden having been pushed up thousands of feet by a huge underground bubble of granite hundreds of millions of years ago. The fictional lorry is crawling up the gentler eastern slopes scraped out by glaciers in more recent times.0 |
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Easterly, North Pennine Moor 11 (0)
Oil on canvas £495 Framed. 51cm x 51cm.
Floating framed in dark stained polished oak. A north pennine lead miners small holding lies in slow decay half way up a bare moorland side below the ancient peat bogs higher up. An easterly hurls the clouds over the ridge behind. Heavy snow blankets the whole landscape.0 |
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Over Hill and Dale, (NPM 44) (0)
oil on canvas SOLD. 41cm x 51cm.
Box canvas, side painted, floating frame - hand painted. Imagined Pennine road in winter.0 |
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Left to Melmerby, (Hartside 10) (0)
Acrylic on canvas £450 Framed. 51cm x 51cm.
Box canvas, side painted, bespoke floating frame - hand painted. Sharp bend on the A686 Hartside Pass road from Alston Moor to the Vale of Eden, Cumbria. Dawn rises over an Alpine Blencathra. A luxuriant Vale of Eden in cool shade. A crow pulls meat off a road kill rabbit.
One of a series about the Hartside Pass.0 |
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North Pennine Moor 28 (0)
Acrylic on canvas NFS. 51cm x 51cm.
Box canvas, side painted. Hot dry colours for a cool damp moorland.0 |
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Ice Road, (Hartside 7) (0)
Oil on board SOLD. 90cm x 45cm.
White floating frame. The road over Hartside Pass with the Lake District fells in the distance as imagined at sunrise with mist over the Vale of Eden. Number 7 in the Road to Eden series. Currently hanging in the Hartside Top cafe.0 |
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Ocean Suture, Allendale (0)
Oil on board £550 Framed. 67cm x 59cm.
Floating framed in heavy dark wood. Imaginary view of Northumberlnd from Dryburn Moor, Allendale overlooking Hadrians Wall and the Cheviot Hills at dawn. Geologically the area of land in the middle distance was once the Iapetus Ocean between Scotland and England. When the tectonic plate on which Scotland was being carried crashed into England the ocean vanished into a subduction zone the scar tissue of which, known as the Iapetus Suture, now stretches across Northumberland and north Cumbria .0 |
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White Van under Black Band, (NPM29) (0)
oil on cnavas SOLD. 41cm x 51cm.
Box canvas, side painted, floating frame - hand painted. A white internet delivery van races towards Rose House Studio, Garrigill under Black Band hill, part of Rotherhope Fell and Cross Fell in the Cumbrian South Tyne valley. Two crows head up the valley. Sold at the Calder Gallery, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire.0 |
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Bolts Law, August (0)
Oil on board SOLD. 87cm x 71cm.
Black oak frame. Painted on location at the Sikehead lead mine flue near Blanchland on August 11th. Insects fill the air above the blooming heather. Bolts Law hill shimmers in the afternoon sun filtered through cotton wool clouds.0 |
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Cheviot 3 (2008)
Oil on board SOLD. 63cm x 57cm.
Third version of a view of Cheviot from the Scottish border based on a sketch. I each version I have altered the rhythm of coloured shapes to create a new feeling of harmony in the landscape against a neutral sky.0 |
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White Horse of Kilburn (0)
Oil on canvas NFS. 41cm x 51cm.
Painted for the White Horse Exhibition at the Zillah Bell gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Based on memory observations of the moon on nightly walks in Garrigill in the North Pennines.0 |
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686 Road to Eden, (Hartside 2) (0)
Oil on canvas SOLD. 93cm x 83cm.
Platinum frame with cream insert. First of a series of paintings about the famous A686 Hartside Pass from Alston Moor to the Vale of Eden with the lake District mountains on the western horizon.
Now available as a limited edition pigment ink giclee print £49 + p&p mounted, or £79 +p&p framed.
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Hartside Pass to Eden, (Hartside 8) (0)
Oil on board SOLD. 79cm x 90cm.
Simple platinum frame with cream insert. This painting is based on drawings up Hartside Pass in east Cumbria near Melmerby. It is an imagined early morning cloud inversion over the Vale of Eden with Blencathra and the Lake District Fells beyond.0 |
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Commute, Hartside Pass, (Hartside 5) (2006)
Oil on board SOLD. 87cm x 79cm.
View from the famous A686 Hartside Pass road from Alston to Penrith voted the 10th most scenic road in the world by the AA. This scene imagines the Vale of Eden drowned in an early morning cloud inversion as if sea levels have risen a lot. The moon and the limestone look on at the passing of time. Private collection.
Now available as a limited edition pigment ink giclee print £49 + p&p mounted, or £79 +p&p framed.0 |
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Road to Eden, (Hartside 3) (0)
Oil on calico SOLD. 40cm x 100cm.
Based on the famous Hartside Pass road overlooking the Vale of Eden towards the Cumbrian mountains. Number 3 in the Road to Eden series.
Private collection.0 |
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Road to Eden, (Hartside 4) (2006)
Oil on canvas SOLD. 120cm x 160cm.
A686 from Hartside Pass looking towards Borrowdale over the Vale of Eden. Number 2 in the Road to Eden series, this painting is based on a quick pastel sketch and a large charcoal study made on location. There is a romantic pull down the snaking road across the Vale of Eden and into the northern Lakes through the gates of Blencathra, the distintive saddleback shaped mountain on the centre right.0 |
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Black Band, August (2006)
Oil on board SOLD. 61cm x 73cm.
Based on a drawing from Rose House, Garrigill looking up the Pennine Way to Black Band on Rotherhope Fell below Cross Fell.0 |
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North Pennine Watershed (2006)
Oil on board SOLD. 59cm x 72cm.
This painting is one of a series of imagined North Pennine landscapes constructed in the studio through a process of change over many weeks. Part of UBS Wealth Management's corporate collection. Image appears on the cover of author Andrew Bibby's latest book "The Backbone of England" published by Frances-Lincoln, 2010.0 |
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North Pennine Watershed (2005)
Oil on board SOLD. 55cm x 100cm.
This painting is one of a series of imagined North Pennine landscapes constructed in the studio through a process of change over many weeks.
Private collection.0 |
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Passing snow shower, Tynehead (0)
Oil on canvas SOLD. 120cm x 95cm.
Snow showers roll across the watershed of the South Tyne under Cross Fell and Great Dunn Fell, the highest part of the Pennine chain. Traces of lead mining are visible in the foreground.0 |
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Arkengarth Dale (0)
Oil on canvas SOLD. 130cm x 70cm.
View of Arkengarth Dale in Swaledale North Yorkshire as imagined in an autumn sunset. Framed0 |
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Cross Country (2005)
Oil on board SOLD. 0cm x 0cm.
An imaginary Cross Fell in an imaginary (and perhaps fast disappearing) winter. Oil paint on deep dark red underpainting. Under Cross Fell and the rest of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is a giant bubble of grannite whose ancient heat created all the rich veins of minerals for which the area is geologicaly famous (now a European Geopark). W.H. Auden was atracted to the hard won feel of this sparten mining landscape. Private collection.0 |
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Horseshoe Hill, Edmundbyers Common (2000)
Oil on paper SOLD. 0cm x 0cm.
Painted on location between Blanchland and Stanhope just above the C2C national cycleway. The road began to disappear under driving snow as I painted this from the tailgate of an estate car. Had to stop the picture so as not to get stranded on this exposed moor. Private collection.0 |
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Long Haul, North Pennine (Allendale 4) (0)
Oil on board £450. 47cm x 45cm.
An imaginary scene based on the landscape around Paxhill and Killhope Law near Allenheads, Northumberland. A cyclist on the C2C route slowly climbs the valley in low gear. Lenticular clouds stack up like tri-plane wings in the low pressure wave over Killhope Law. A derelict lime kiln and quarry gradually, silently give themselves back to nature.0 |
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Coalcleugh Moor from West Allen (2002)
Oil on calico SOLD. 122cm x 61cm.
Painted on location north of Carrshields in the upper West Allen valley, Northumberland in February. A south easterly vaulted the clouds across the valley which gave me a little bit of shelter from a biting February wind. The picture was painhted on top of an earlier abstract painting which gave it some interesting but subtle colours and textures. Private collection.0 |
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House and Yacht in the Country, Allendale (2005)
oil on canvas SOLD. 84cm x 84cm.
Near Paxhill, East Allendale. Based on a drawing made on location on a cold day in February when the clouds were threatening to lower themselves onto the whole landscape. At the top of the hill stands a group old ex miners cottages with a yacht parked permanently outsideas if waiting for the sea level to rise and lift it off. Private coillection.0 |
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Killhope Law, Allendale (2005)
Oil on board SOLD. 57cm x 49cm.
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Clouds on Moor 3, North Pennines (2005)
Oil on board SOLD. 0cm x 0cm.
Inspired by the music of Phillip Glass in which patterns are clearly discernible but never quite repeat.0 |
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