I have realised that it was the same places on ‘my mountain’ that kept inspiring me to paint: I am drawn back to sketch and soak up the ancient stone walls, the mining remnants and the fences that are being reclaimed by Mother Nature. I love the way they are glimpsed through the verdant greens of the mosses and the blue-greys of crusty lichens. These are ancient boundaries between times past and present; between manmade artefacts and the natural world, so ‘Liminal’ became the theme that links them.
The palette reflects my joy at being part of this landscape: with the bright acid-greens and golds reflecting the intense colours here, even in the winter. Some of my work has become a little less abstract, but the broad sweeping marks evoking the wind; the gnarly marks and scratches conveying the rocks and twisted undergrowth, and the swooping organic lines of birdsong, are still an integral part of the work.
2023 – Liminal
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The cairns beckon.
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Hills of fern and Ling
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Cloaked in Dragon’s Breath
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Whispers of Molinia
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A permanence of stones.
£700 -
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Loops of stone, o walls of grey.
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Rocks rise tumultuous.
£600 -
Pale crested waves of the moorland.
£700 -
Lichen crusted greys.
£375 -
Land of crystal caves.
£240 -
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In the company of kites.
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This ancient gouged land.
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Enchanted liminal lines.
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Tracing silent boundaries.
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Where pale sunlight clings.
£275 -
These princely tors.
£275 -
Intertwined.
£525 -
Carn Ingli sentinel.
£380 -
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These monumental cairns.
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Hills of heather and cluttered scree.
£675 -
Ghostly, voiceless clouds.
£675 -
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Where breezes whistle free.
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Molinia.