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Are you ready for our photo montage from our Cumbria Sings project last week? Look out for it on Friday at 1.15pm

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2021-03-03

🌳Stephen Knowles has captured a great image from within the Eden Valley.
'Rutter Force, Eden Valley, Cumbria'
🌳Stephen's image is available as a stretched canvas, framed fine art print and a card.

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2021-02-24

Snowdrops still in abundance so thought I’d better paint some before it’s too late!

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2021-02-24

Many of the works featured take inspiration from Cumbria. However, 'Dancing in The Dark' takes inspiration from another part of the world.
Can you guess the location of this beautiful landscape?

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2021-02-18

It is week 2 for today we celebrate The is a dream destination for many, we can't wait to welcome people back. This guidebook from the 1950s was used to explore all the area has to offer.

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2021-02-09

🌿Still not Spring but this is my fix of green atm🌿- another project I’m finishing up. Click to expand & I hope you get some uplifting green vibes from it!

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2021-02-09

The village of 'Dragley Beck', now part of Ulverston, is the birthplace of Sir John Barrow, English statesman, and one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society.
It gets it's name from the dragon that legend says, sleeps underneath it.

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2021-02-08

Imaginary places to visit for Well, perhaps I already have:
Along Hardknott Pass, Cumbria’s Faerie King Eveling holds his court. He's an intriguing figure, his name may be connected to the Avalon of Athurian legend

La Mort d'Arthur by James Archer, 1860

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2021-02-03

Did you know you can buy prints direct?

Get your print of 'Northern Pyrotechnics' - Old Man and Wetherlam from Windermere now!

https://t.co/QExkMQOi7f

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2021-01-29

Using my homemade hawthorn charcoal & a chalk pencil on sanded paper for this portrait.

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2021-01-24

All right, let's do an intro tweet! I'm Mako, a hobby artist from the UK, a Northumbrian living in south London and a D&D enthusiast. I'm an active socialist and trade unionist, so you'll also see that on here now and again.

Here's my stuff!

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2021-01-20

Another couple of roses I started last week. I had photographed them against a black background, but life is black enough atm, thank you very much so this is a lighter interpretation!

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2021-01-20

Muddy dog bathed, stove lit, so got on with painting more roses this afternoon. Colour’s a bit off on this photo, the rose is ‘Ash Wednesday’, a climber the deer haven’t found yet! 😉#art

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2021-01-17

theme of home remedies 🌿
A local recipe for that nasty cough:
1lb onions
1lb black treacle
Peel & cut the onions into small pieces. Pour the treacle over and allow to stand for 48 hours. Then strain & bottle.
A dessert spoonful taken if desired 🤢

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2021-01-16

theme of
Similar to a Brownie, a Hob-thross appears in Cumbrian folklore. One, nicknamed Tawney Boy lived with a family at Overthwaite. Hob-thross will do a great deal of work for a family if treated well
https://t.co/dR79xhRH82
art: Spiderwick Chronicles

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2021-01-14