ROAD TO HARTSIDE | OIL ON CANVAS | 150CM X 150CM | 2019

This painting is of a view on the road to Hartside, from Alston. It was painted in winter, where the North Pennines can become very inhospitable and snowy for weeks at a time. The road to Hartside is a particularly bad road in winter and is often impassable. This is a large painting, showing the beauty and loneliness of the landscape in all its vastness. The snowflakes aim to emphasise the spirituality of the landscape through the geometry of the natural form