Inherited painting

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Hi I have inherited a painting, photos attached. Stamp on the back with CP Productions, Lisburn. Painting appears to be called “Path to the Hills” I can’t read the artists signature. wonder if anyone could offer some advise or information as to where I could go to find out more spa out the painting. Thank you
Apart from the initials W R the rest is unreadable, could be Rawlings? It looks to me to be a print, perhaps one that was varnished over when it was framed, I can see signs of crazing which I don’t think is paint flaking.
Very hard to tell if it's a print or a painting, but whatever it is, it's quite badly crazed.  The back label says 'made by' a company - now; that MIGHT mean the frame and backing board; but I suspect it's more likely to mean the picture itself, which would almost certainly make it a print. The only way to read the signature would be to take it out of the frame - but I'm not sure it would tell you much.  IF this is a painting, it could do with a clean; if it's a print, it's a print of a painting that needed a clean - there are some nice passages in the painting, but on the whole it reads very darkly, suggesting the need for the removal of the old varnish.  But if it is a print, and it has been varnished, removing the varnish would (probably) destroy the print.  So if you're thinking of doing any restoration on it, you do need to know exactly what it is.  Both Alan and I could tell you if we were nearer - a gallery or auction house could tell you as well.  I presume the company named on the back no longer exists?  Edit:  I just checked - C.P. Productions was dissolved around 7 years ago, but specialized in "prints and mirrors for the retail trade": I'm afraid I'm pretty sure you've got a print, whose only commercial value lies in the frame. 

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by Robert Jones, NAPA