Harbourside buildings
Edging the land, buidling has a particular fit as the necessities of shelter and utility, and avoidance of inundation by the sea, influence the shape of the place. Harbours, houses, quaysides, bridges, piers, moorings provide a great source of inspiration: picturesque delight, strong abstract visual qualities, and the dynamics of tide, light and weather at play.
Isle of Whithorn and Port William
More harbour side buildings - and an invitation to look at the new section of work on my website on this theme. ...
Isle of Whithorn
Morning shadows and evening reflections.
Non water soluble combined with water soluble pencil sketches of a group of the ...
Remembering Greg, and a trip to Orkney with the Landscape and Arts Network in 2004
One of my all-time stand-out creative adventures with LAN, ...
Some things change and others stay the same:
1-3 #timberpier and two of the #landmarkbridges #berwickupontweed 2018 #pencilsketch - chance same ...
#mixedmedia #fieldsketches from summer 2003 #oilbar and #waxcrayon #resists with #watercolourwash and #colouredpencils #pittpencil
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#pencil #townscape #studies #fieldsketches from recent #sketchingtrip to #berwickupontweed
The Quayside
#inspired by ...
Buildings in the landscape
Farms, barns, crofts, hamlets and villages, where the built forms individually or grouped together find a comfortable fit. Often hunkered in to the land to align with the sweeps of the weather, or perched along an edge with prospect and refuge: pleasing to the eye where there is a synergy between the built form and lines, with the lie of the land.
‘Let your lives speak’
George Fox - founder of the Quakers
Integrity. Equality. Simplicity. Community. Stewardship of the Earth. ...
Beckfoot, where the Scandal Beck joins the Eden
Field sketches of Linehams and Trainriggs Farms from earlier in the year - each set up off the ...
Winterings, old house with thatch line
One of four old buildings in the Dales with the steepened gable pitch indicating a thatched roof. Sketched ...
New website!
Thank you to Rachael @rachael.pollitt and Elaine at Clooti for working with me to develop my website.... live today😊 Link in ...
Nenthead Mines walk 2
From within the mined area - framed and glimpsed views down river to the village - and up in to the convoluted folds of rock...
Nenthead Mines walk 1
Some tiny A5 #pencilsketches #sketchingonthemove on a #walk around #nenthead
Posted in reverse here are 1 the spoil ...
Winter hedges & thorns
Drawing the hedges and thorns is an escape and absorption below the surface of things…. a passing in to another world.
Old nest in thorn, near the Fell Gate
Fascinating #abstracts of #shape #line #textures #colours and the layered structures…. An absorbing ...
Ellers 6
#blackthorn thicket
#riverpath #rivereden #immersiveexperience #vortex
#snowtransformation #snowday❄️
#jssktwo
Ellers 5
Rose
#quicksketch #pencildrawing with #yellow #waxcrayon
The #snow makes an #abstract of the #scene - stripping out information...
Ellers 4
Reflections and shadows
Quick #pencilsketch from earlier last week - with photos from then - and in the snow today with #abstract ...
Ellers 3
#pencilsketches from the sequence of #drawings along the #riverpath - enjoying the #shapes of #river through the trunks and branches - ...
Ellers 2
Rose - standing out but fitting in
Sixth in sequence of eleven #pencilsketches #drawing along a #riverpath - the Ellers. This means ...
Alston & Nentdale
I have been going to Alston over a number of years, introduced to the area by Lionel Playford when attending his sketching and painting courses at Rose House Studio, Garrigill. Although the area offers a sort of landscape home from home just on the other side of Cross Fell, I always find crossing this great divide restorative to my spirit. I return there when I can to sketch.
Garrigill mining landscape
Back to Pennine Painting in 2012 with @lionelplayford ....
A series of wide format quick sketches of the mining ...
Auden’s Favourite Landscapes
More sketchbook archaeology and I found a series of sketches from Clar Gill, 8 October 2011 - again from a Pennine ...
Yad Moss, Crookburn Gill
A series of quick sketches from a class I took with Lionel Playford @lionelplayford in 2016.
Scanning some ...
Nenthead Mines walk 2
From within the mined area - framed and glimpsed views down river to the village - and up in to the convoluted folds of rock...
Nenthead Mines walk 1
Some tiny A5 #pencilsketches #sketchingonthemove on a #walk around #nenthead
Posted in reverse here are 1 the spoil ...
Nentberry field patterns
#studio time developing #fieldsketches - from earlier in week, and also winter sketches from a few years ago.
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Howgill Fells
Our wonderful herd of elephants as I thought of them as a child….
WIP 2 Illustrated map of walk from Lincoln’s Inn Bridge to the Crook of Lune, returning by Fox’s Pulpit.
#cumbria #yorkshiredalesnationalpark...
‘Let your lives speak’
George Fox - founder of the Quakers
Integrity. Equality. Simplicity. Community. Stewardship of the Earth. ...
Towards Castley Knotts
Van sketch on way home after a stunning walk in the Lune Valley between Lincoln Inn’s Bridge and the Crook of Lune, ...
Cautley Crag
#quicksketch using #sketchingkit of water soluble (left) and resist / non-soluble mark makers (right). Not a snow scene - just never ...
Weasdale, Howgill
Heavy shadows in late light. Field sketch from near Bent’s Hill, a beautiful area of limestone fell. Air thick with lark song ...
Axe Route, Smardale Fells
When I walked the route I realised there were many possible routes crossing the Upper Eden Valley as the area is a sort ...
the good spring weather of 2020.
Axe Route
In my parents book on Kirkby Stephen my father speculates about a prehistoric route crossing the Upper Eden Valley, between the Langdale Axe Factories and areas east of the Pennines. For the 2019 Sketch Across the World I walked and made drawings between the Eden-Lune watershed and my home in Winton. During the Covid 19 lockdown I explored the local landscapes this route crossed, initially close to home, and as restrictions eased further afield returning to the Eden watersheds across the Asby and Smardale Fells, and also in to Baldersdale.
Landscapes of the Axe Route
Views from some of the high points and prehistoric round cairns around the Upper Eden and Lune Valleys, overlooking ...
Rayseat Pike
A walking, drawing, thinking, noting, mapping sketchbook muddle from June earlier his year - exploring the speculative Axe Route - ...
Baldersdale 7 - West and East Loups ruined farmsteads
Cotherstone Moor is an exercise in convex space, with from Loups’s Hill and the two ...
Baldersdale 6 - Loups’s Hill approach and departure
Walking in against a strong wind without any high expectation - returning after sunset ...
Baldersdale 5 - Loups’s Hill
An evening walk after a day of rain at midsummer - taking advantage of public access on Sundays to the military ...
Baldersdale 4 - Hannah’s Meadows
‘To me there’s nowhere like it and never will be. This is my life - my world.’ Hannah Hauxwell, Low Birk...
Potts Valley
Potts Valley confounds the watershed between the Eden and the Lune, where (I presume) some sort of glacial action has breached the more obvious barrier of the Crosby Garret and Asby Fells. The enclosed and sinuous valley, contrasts with the expansive limestone tops, and is punctuated by the open eye of Sunbiggin Tarn looking skyward. An ancient feeling place, tranquil and idyllic here in the good spring weather of 2020.
Potts Beck and enclosures
Set of #quicksketches #pencilsketches made on different walks earlier in the summer. An irresistible subject of ...
Potts Valley
More downstream views - from earlier in the summer - and a refreshing reminder of the blue waters of Potts Beck on days the clear ...
Potts Valley
Looking down stream to the Eden Valley and North Pennines in dramatically contrasting evening light.
Pencil sketch taking in ...
Potts Valley
Cumbrian summer sketching..... anorak and dopo flask (thank you @alie.bloemert 🤗xxx).
An elbow in the valley makes good ...
Potts Valley perambulation
Beautiful light - slow miles🙂
1 barn 2 Potts Farm 3 bull pasture 4 Eden Valley 5 hay meadow 6 Little Asby Common...
Potts Valley enclosures and shelter trees
An overview of the distinctive trees and field patterns from perched on the opposite side of the valley....
Langrigg Perambulation
Early during the Covid 19 lockdown my daily walk was up our local fell lane over the shoulder of Langrigg to see the black grouse lekking; and when time allowed a full circuit around the fell and returning down the Fell House road. This regular circuit made for a meditative perambulation, helpful to ease out whatever knots had built up.
View from Langrigg of Birketts and Upper Eden 3
Final find - deep bit of sketchbook archaeology 🤓 - maybe my first sketch of the view from ...
Birketts and the Upper Eden Valley 2
Field sketches from 2014 and 2018 - two from Langrigg, the third of Great Bell in Mallerstang, and the final ...
Birketts and Upper Eden from Langrigg 1
Cards for sale - first of my selection is a field sketch from 24 May, which I posted on Instagram the same...
Details from previous post
Blaming tools - used a very disappointing / blunt brush for tree canopies. False economy.🤓
#markmaking ...
Fell House Road near / crossing? Romano British settlement
Two interpretations from the same viewpoint.
Four of these Iron Age farmsteads ...
Langrigg Perambulation
‘Sorting Task’ - collating sketches, sorting them in to groups / themes of place and characteristics, mapping, ...
Course Preparation
Resists 2
The effects from resists in this 2014 field sketch weren’t planned - and my attempts to recreate or understand how they happened are ...
Resists 1
....back in the laboratory....🤓
Organising materials - making a selection with good potential for outside and studio work. My own...
Composition
Quick compositions - a briefer than intended practice session in the lovely Jen Callis garden.... 17 minutes before the weather window...
Creative Sketchbooks - Reflective Practice
Preparing for a session on reflective practice this weekend..... by doing some #reflectivepractice ...
Mark Making 1 - Mixed media and resists
Preparing for a couple of weekend art sessions on field sketching and creative sketchbooks.... several ...
Creative Sketchbooks - twigs and lichen, mossy wall
I liked this tiny study from the start - the visceral quality and enjoyment of the areas of ...
