Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle the view opens out in

the view opens out in a magnificent panorama

Add to this the sight of swathes of bright bluebells with their heady perfume and you have the most wonderful sensory experience

When there is a winter covering of snow

barbecues and just generally watching the river meander by

Bamburgh Dreamscape - Original Painting Harbottle the view opens out inThis 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