Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle barbecues and just generally watching

barbecues and just generally watching the river meander by

hunting for their favourite meal of small fish and sand eels

Practical yet very desirable

sky and sand meet is one of life's great pleasures

selected to compliment the colours used in the painting

Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle barbecues and just generally watchingThis painting is one of my "dreamscape" series painted during lockdown, when I wasn't able to visit the Northumberland coast. Starved of visiting my favourite places, they began to take on an almost mythic quality in my imagination. This prompted me to work using the paint in a more experimental, abstract way, working from memory rather than my more customary techiniques. The results are almost dreamlike less realistic than my regular works but full