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“For many years I have lived and worked next to the Solway estuary, I still fish in it using the traditional Haaf net.

Since childhood, I’ve been acutely aware of the action of the tide; a place that was safe to walk on yesterday can be too treacherous today.

I hope that my paintings in some way convey the idea of the impermanence and shifting nature of the Solway estuary and also the influence of the weather over time on this environment.

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“The Cumbrian fells are shaped chiefly by two things; man’s efforts to exploit them and the weather. These two things nearly always inform my paintings of the Lake District. 

Animal tracks; buildings or their remains; walls and mine workings; fells appearing above low cloud; deep stream gullies, mist and rain often appear in my work in abstracted form. Their importance good or bad is magnified.

I live close to the northern bowl of the Lake District and try to paint the fells with the evidence of human intervention – walls, buildings, paths and agriculture but with nature always victorious.

Recent work has included a series of floral paintings. They include five images based on the changes over the course of a year on one particular field near my home.

I try to portray the land returning to its original state as an optimistic rather than a pessimistic view.”

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All of these works are available as Giclee digital art prints, our largest standard image size is 550 x 400 cm. Individual prints can be customised to your required dimensions. They are mounted on archival quality board.

Each mounted but unframed print costs £150 and an oak-framed print will cost £200

Please enquire if you would like prices for purchasing multiple prints or you have a question about frames or postage.

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