Peter Brook’s paintings of winter weather are often lifted by a carefully considered touch of colour. In ‘Notice - One Miles Ahead’ the bright red road works sign and accompanying oil lamps catch the eye, creating a striking contrast with the snow as it blows across the road.
A portrait of a horse for a change today! I was commissioned to paint this handsome chap a couple of years ago, using soft pastels on archival quality paper 😊
Peter Brook brought variety to his work by painting his favourite locations in all sorts of weather. In contrast to yesterday’s post, in ‘On the Way from Reeth to Tan Hill and Stopped’ we see Peter and Shep in Arkengarthdale again, but in a snow storm with no hint of brightness.
'The Landing in Summer.' Mary Dawson Elwell emerged on the British art scene as a painter of interiors, or more accurately, 'portrait interiors,' of her Yorkshire home in the 1930s. Her watchwords are stillness, silence, containment, privacy, meditation, illumination.