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The Yorkshire Dales680 square miles of National Park.The North York Moors554 square miles of National Park.

The Yorkshire Wolds, The North andWest Yorkshire side of the Pennine Hills,heading further north Teesdale andWeardale, southwards brings anotherNational Park, The Peak District - withinan hours drive of Leeds in any directionare areas of outstanding landscape for-mations, and all of them different in theirown way.

Within ten minutes drive of my home isLower Wharfedale, a steep sided glaciat-ed valley a couple of miles wide, over thetop of the moors on the far side you dropinto Nidderdale, these are the moors andvalleys that I have known these pastfifty-something years, these moorlandsof Northern England are the inspirationfor the landscape paintings I produce,sometimes very literal, sometimes in anabstract manner but every time you thinkthat the colour palette has gone a bithaywire you turn another corner in theroad and there in front of you is a moor-side catching a shaft of sunlight anddisplaying colours that you just cannotmix with any man-made paints.

“The Chevin”, acrylic and ink on canvas, original sold.

A very familiar scene to me as I pass it several times a week, the view from Yorkgate on top of Otley Chevin across the width of Wharfedale to-wards Almscliffe Crag.

“Hillside 3”, acrylic and ink on canvas, original sold.

Another familiar scene to me, the view through a hedge at the side of the road as I drive past most days and proof that no-one need travel vast dis-tances to find some landscape to admire.

“Across the Moors”, acrylic on canvas, original sold.

A scene from memory this time in typical Yorkshire Wolds scenery, gently undulating chalk hills roll onwards towards the Yorkshire coastline andhidden in the valleys are small hamlets and homesteads that have hidden there for hundreds of years.

“Farm on a Hill in Winter”, acrylic and ink on canvas, original sold.

Based on a view from a street very close by, if you moved the focus slightly to the left you’d see Leeds/Bradford Airport !

“Chevin Hillside”, acrylic and ink on canvas, original sold.

A view from the very edge of the Chevin Country Park looking up Wharfedale beyond the market town of Otley in all its autumnal glory.

“Hillside 1”, acrylic on paperA random hill study for reference purposes

“Hillside 2”, acrylic on paperA random hill study for reference purposes

“Hillside 3”, acrylic on paperAnother random hill study based loosely on a localscene.

“Hillside 4”, acrylic on paperSeen from a roadside in Wharfedale looking across toan opposite hill in snow.

Two studies of Lincolnshire fields in acrylic and ink on canvas

More views from a speeding car, the scenery of South Lincoln-shire may appear at first sight to be flat and uninteresting but on acold winters morning with the weak sun low in the sky you seebronze and gold in every dormant field, surrounded by ancientwoodland that is retained for field boundaries these days, so muchnicer than barbed wire fences.

“Swaledale”, acrylic on canvas, original sold.

Looking down Swaledale, one of the Northern Dales with the typical steep sided glaciated valleys, ancient stone walls and field barns.

“Swaledale”, acrylic on canvas, a test piece

Another Swaledale scene to test a new priming medium, it didn’t work, look closely and you can see the paint migrating from the canvas, oh well,back to the drawing board (literally) - a pleasant effect on the patchwork hillside though.

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