100 years from now 100 years from now the stories that lie hidden in this landscape will be forgotten. 100 years from now the fact that i painted this picture, wrote these words will have shared the same fate. At a micro level those stories will be no more, at a macro level they will … Continue reading 100 years from now
Tag: Landscape Painting
Succession, my annual exhibition at Gage, went well. So well that I have been invited to stage an exhibition at Sheffield’s newest gallery, theArtSocial, on Snig Hill in the emerging Castle Quarter of the City. The show runs through December, and will feature some works from Succession, and also several new paintings. It's a smaller … Continue reading Leave only footprints – New show
Yesterday evening I was fortunate to stumble upon a broadcast by Newcastle University’s Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA). Ella Mershon and Cal Flyn (author) discussed her book, Islands of abandonment: Life in the post human environment, a collection of studies about the way in which nature responds to the abandoned remnants of human endeavour. … Continue reading Landscape is mute?
On the edge of Winter It’s been an interesting month, back to lockdown and 4 weeks waiting for paint (shortage of Titanium White) but I’ve used the time to develop the underlying theme of the Forest series, and also to spread my work more widely on the internet. I am happy to say that my … Continue reading On the edge of Winter
Magpie Mine The Magpie Mine is probably the UK's best preserved Lead Mine. It was worked until 1958, with ground and shallow pit digging beginning as earlier as the 17th century, and the name is first recorded in 1740. It sits, alone in the Derbyshire countryside, surrounded by farmland, and a half mile trek from … Continue reading Magpie Mine and experiment
Rambling through an abstract landscape 