The Romans passed through
91.5 x 91.5cm, Oil on canvas
91.5 x 91.5cm, Oil on canvas
The burning bush and the snake
91.5 x 91.5cm, Oil on canvas
91.5 x 91.5cm, Oil on canvas
The Romans passed through, and The Burning bush and the snake, are part of an ongoing painting series about North Yorkshire Moors towns and villages. Travelling down from the moor tops into the villages you get a feel that these settlements have been there for centuries and have a strong echo from history alongside modern living, some reference points are: teenagers waiting for a bus; local industry; homes quarried from the surrounding stone; religious change; and tribalism.
A way through
122 x 86cm, Oil on canvas
122 x 86cm, Oil on canvas
A way through, is a landscape painting based on a view of Ingleton, one of the 'three peaks' in the Yorkshire dales. The view is from the limestone escarpment of Kingsdale, home to the Cheese Press, one of my favourite subjects. Being able to see and paint how over so many years the landscape was created by the Ice age, and changes it has had since binds me into the love and tradition of landscape painting.
Dog on a limestone pavement
132 x 107cm, Oil on canvas
132 x 107cm, Oil on canvas
Dog on a limestone pavement, is a step back in position than that for The way through. Here, reality has been spun about and tipped up with a cubist vision. The Cheese press stones are seen from different angles and landscape lifted up to add more monolithic shape with a spiritual anphropomorphism. Architectural red stone forms are borrowed from nearby victorian railway construction and stacked as a plinth to venerate the stones. We take our whippets on all our travels around the landscape. Tim with his blue coat on (Whippets don't like the cold much) pads his way across the limestone pavement.