The Lorton Fells (view from the John Dalton Way, 30/5/23)
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This oil sketch will feature in a special exhibition in Keswick Museum and Art Gallery from January 15th 2024. Working as an inventory volunteer there, I came across a lithograph of the pioneering Cumbrian physicist John Dalton, whose researches led him to surmise the existence of the atom. The "Dalton Way" is a walking trail that runs from Cockermouth (via Dalton's birth village) to Calder Hall on the coast. My picture was sketched from the John Dalton Way.
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Peter Brook
I was first given a go with oil paints in the 60s and I’ve used them ever since. Interviewed for Art School in the ‘70s, I was assured that as an art graduate I’d probably never touch a brush & oil paint again, so I gave it a miss! Oil painting has always remained “what I do”. I think it was…
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