Built Environment - UK
A mixed media collection focusing on built environment in the UK.
About the Collection.
A series of works of Cathedrals in various media.
York Minster
(Watercolour)
The graceful and intricate west front is always lovely to see, even though it is obscured by the London plane tree in front of it. I confess to simply making the tree smaller in order to show the front more clearly.
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
(Pen and wash)
This unforgettable Neo-classical building, designed by James Gibbs, is a charming asset to the university’s architectural glories.
St Paul's Cathedral
(Watercolour)
The result of another day trip to London with sketchbook in bag: this is one of those rare occasions when things turn out right. The sketch was copied with brush, only when I got home.
Whalley Abbey Conference House
(Watercolour)
The abbey’s ruins are what are left following Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. This is the conference house, a later construction, but still a handsome building and ideal for conferences & retreats.
Colne from the Lenches
(Oil)
A painting of my home town. One of those lucky chances of being in the right place at the right time, with the weather and my location, walking home over the moors coinciding. My wife likens it to San Gimignano in Italy with its many towers and this picture shows why.
Cae Mabon Green Village, North Wales
(Watercolour)
An example of a return to a more primitive lifestyle, this collection of ‘hobbit’ huts in the woods of Snowdonia is an enjoyable place for a get-together, with its dining hut, story hut and hot tubs.
St. Mary’s Church, Scarborough
(Watercolour)
Still a very historic, attractive and roomy church overlooking the old town and harbour. This ruined end bears witness to when it was used as a gun battery by the Roundheads besieging the nearby castle.
Westminster Abbey
(Watercolour)
This was another product of my ‘mad’ cycle ride around London; doing a quick sketch of what I saw wherever I landed up and converting it into a painting when I got home.
I like to think it helps to support the belief that the bike is an efficient form of transport, as well as a healthy one.
Packhorse Bridge, Barrowford
(Oil)
This graceful span has a tranquility that is easy to miss. It is just along from the busy, more modern bridge, built to carry traffic on the road to Gisburn.
Hebden Bridge
(Oil)
I painted this picture before realising that I was depicting a disaster waiting to happen. The peat moors above, managed only for grouse shooting will, instead of holding the increased rainfall generated by global warming, release it and flood the town.
Bolton Abbey
(Watercolour)
A view across the River Wharfe. Not much remains of the abbey demolished by Henry VIII but it is now a rewarding attraction to locals and tourists alike.
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