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A little portrait I’m experimenting with… built up in soft layers, just following my intuition and having fun! Oil on wooden panel, 9” x12”

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2021-07-08

Commission for @/umbrian_hierarchy on Instagram 🥵

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2021-07-02

Sarah Taylor is a contemporary wildlife artist whose distinctive graphic style plays with geometric pattern & fluid marks to create engaging, lively paintings.
https://t.co/SIxiiidLGK

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2021-06-30

Since I was drawing on watercolour paper (Arches, Aquarelle hot pressed) I thought I’d add …some watercolour! Not sure if I like it yet…

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2021-06-25

Inspired by the energy & patterns of sky, fell or water, Val Powell paints landscapes and still life, mostly in oils.
https://t.co/MtTGMTVpJk

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2021-06-24

Valerie Stamper works in watercolour, pastel & oil from her studio near Appleby, focussing on the colour in the landscape, wildlife & flowers around her.
https://t.co/uG5CSKbu6y

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2021-06-24

Julie Inkersole's artwork often starts as pen & ink drawings, completed with colour washes of ink, acrylic paint or watercolour.
https://t.co/x01U4SbOpO

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2021-06-23

Still loving this palette. The perfect antidote for overcast skies here in Cumbria today. https://t.co/gegyflaAwC

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2021-06-22

Lynn Bates studied Fine Art & spent a few years as a scenic artist at the BBC before moving to Cumbria in the 1990s. She works as a mural & specialist interior painter as well as pursuing her interest in painting.
https://t.co/lMtY01kU7o

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2021-06-20

Renwick 1733, a Cockatrice took up residence in the ruined church. A local man, John Tallantine killed the creature using rowan tree branch, although some believe it can still be seen flying around the church at night
https://t.co/dR79xhRH82

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2021-06-14

Progress snap of this today. I’m going to let it dry for a day or two whilst I get on with something else. Have a good weekend!🌸#wip

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2021-06-12

Sarah Farooqi picture of The Angel of the North by Anthony Gormley. She’s a Northumbrian ink and Watercolours artist with a light touch

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2021-06-11

Working on this little oil on canvas today. I found the deer skull in the potting shed where I think it’s been gathering dust for over 20 years! It’s probably a roe deer’s skull as they’re common around here.#wip

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2021-06-11

Another experimental oil painting over a drawing on paper. A very different surface to the PVA I used before, this time I primed the paper with gesso.

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2021-06-05

LAKELAND WILD by is June's
*Cumbria Life Book of the Month*

A view of Lakeland through Scottish eyes –
“Notions of spirit of place thread through the book … soulful but resisting the ethereal.”

Out 10 June
https://t.co/lFEdcUR9AL

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2021-06-03

L1377 Cumbria 19" x 13" £200 and L1339 Pink Cumbria 13" x 19" £200 both unframed.

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2021-05-31

Forthcoming Exhibition

Norman Cornish: Behind The Scenes - Revealed

Castlegate House Gallery, Cockermouth , Cumbria.

September 18th to October 9th 2021



https://t.co/doCSRdBtQC

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2021-05-31