Grosmont.

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Your sketchbooks are an absolute joy.

Posted by Lewis Cooper on Thu 15 Mar 16:45:11

You have saved your day Denis with this lovely sketch.

Posted by Sylvia Evans on Thu 15 Mar 16:54:54

Cracker. Love it.

Posted by Seth Dalton on Thu 15 Mar 17:37:39

I really like your posts today. Nice collection of sketches. Nice washes on the buildings' walls.

Posted on Thu 15 Mar 17:52:42

Yes, another treat just like the ink ones.

Posted by Gudrun Ståhl Sharpley on Thu 15 Mar 19:19:15

Oh super duper. Weather good in Yorkshire?? Hmmm.

Posted by Shirley May on Thu 15 Mar 19:21:24

Three lovely sketches Dennis

Posted by David Johns on Thu 15 Mar 19:30:40

Three lovely sketches Dennis- well worth the suffering!

Posted by Tessa Gwynne on Fri 16 Mar 13:12:58

Love this Dennis...it is an honour to peer into your wonderful sketchbooks.

Posted by Thalia Stones on Fri 16 Mar 14:13:07

You have managed to get some sunlight into this lovely sketch, despite the weather..

Posted by Stephen Slater on Fri 16 Mar 16:44:43

Brilliant stuff, Denis! I love it and your gallery.

Posted by Jennifer Alsop on Fri 16 Mar 18:49:08

Hang on Studio Wall

15/03/2018

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I had high hopes when I came up to North Yorkshire, thatthe weather would be kind and I would manage a few decent days sketching. I was an optimist! I arrived in Grosmont in rain which got increasingly heavier. The water was running down the street like a river! Not detered, I sought refuge in the porch of the Railway Tavern and sketched this.. not brilliant but at least I managed to do something!

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Denis Pickles

I’ve been drawing and painting for a long, long time. The first picture I have still in my possession is dated November 1939 and 83 years on I’m still at it! Keen on art at school and would have dearly liked a job with an art connection- I had hoped to get into architecture, but it did not happen.…

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