I am a landscape painter with a strong interest in natural phenomena of light and weather and how these affect the colours of upland landscape especially in the Lake District and North Pennines. Read More
Category Archives: Artists
Rachy McKenzie is a senior graphic designer; born, raised, educated and working in the Lake District. Dedicated to creating interesting and informative work, which varies from digital design to hand drawn typography.
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Sophie is a freelance artist and illustrator based in Bowness on Windermere. She grew up near Kendal and spent her childhood in the Lake District climbing mountains and developing her love of the outdoors. She spent 9 years living in Edinburgh where she completed a degree in illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and subsequently worked as a freelance illustrator whilst also helping to run a small art gallery in Marchmont. Read More
Sarah Tew experiments with various materials, responding to the natural landscape and how we relate to it. Leaves and fern will be the base for her painted Herdwick lamb. Sarah was awarded the inaugural Cumbrian Artist of the Year Award 2015 and currently works between Cumbria and London.
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Since retiring as a teacher I have developed my artistic skills and am studying for an MA in children’s book illustration. My interests are portraiture, life drawing printmaking and stained glass design.
A long established and versatile artist, a painter and skilled draughtsman. His most notable work is at first sight abstract but strongly rooted in the stories of particular places and times. Read More
Karen MacDougall creates colourful paintings, drawings, collages, textiles and sculptural work for exhibition and to commission. She has exhibited widely and has work in collections across the world. Locally, her Public Art can be seen in Penrith’s Coronation Garden, Penrith Leisure Centre and in schools across the county.
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Through use of laser-cutting and paper manipulation, embellishment with watercolour and stitch, I produce watercolour paintings with depth, shadow and reflection. Thus results in artwork which expresses the character and essence of the British countryside.
I observe animals, their shapes, gestures and mannerisms and in developing my ideas, I take them quite often out of their context. I like using bold colours.
In my work, I explore the possibilities of bringing the subjects in and out of focus. Composition plays an important role in my paintings. I sometimes use perspective to distort images.
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I would like to design with the sponsor rather than present a fait accompli. Two ideas illustrated a) Mountain Landscape b) daffodil design, bright, structured design with either some words from Wordsworth’s poem or 1-10 Yan, tan, tethera etc.
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