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Today I drew a beehive and watched rainbows framing Skiddaw and worried a bit about bills and direction and winter and headaches ...but then I thought sod it, it's probably too late to get a proper job now anyway.

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2021-10-02

Maria Burton has 3 new paintings on display in our downstairs gallery.
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“Skiddaw above Keswick” oil painting is a powerfully evocative winter scene, in words, “ painting is about a connection & an expression” & that, “ the work is personal borne of experience”

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2020-09-04

“Shelter, Skiddaw House” new by by Fay Collins.

“ All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room and alone”, French philosopher Blair’s Pascal. https://t.co/tUyDi6BZvd. And breathe.

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2020-04-06

Yipeeee it's stopped raining, hello again views! New paintings by Rod Willis who gets up at the crack of dawn to capture sunrise in our magnificent surroundings https://t.co/0uQMQSUuyE

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2019-08-12

Photos, sketches and watercolours from the summit of Skiddaw Lesser Man. It would appear that someone has arranged the rocks and redundant iron fencing of the cairn into something like an abstract sculpture, or perhaps it was completely unintended, who knows?

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2019-07-15

We've had wonderful news in the Lake District this week, as the first osprey has been spotted at Bassenthwaite 🦅
Seems like a good time to share my illustrated Bassenthwaite map commissioned by Ravenstone Manor- a 19th century, boutique hotel nestled in the Skiddaw foothills.

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2019-04-03

Derwent Water with Skiddaw in the Distance (1795-6) [Cumbria, England] by Joseph Wright of Derby. Yale Center for British Art.

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2018-06-25

Derwent Water with Skiddaw in the Distance (1795-6) [Cumbria, England] by Joseph Wright of Derby. Yale Center for British Art.

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2018-06-21

Looking onto Skiddaw from Braithwaite’s campsite in the Lake District. in https://t.co/o19wkbKDyE

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2017-10-02

Nice wild wander up Skiddaw today. The hills are still here, still open and still awesome.

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2015-12-11