Bit of Friday evening pastel sketching as the oil painting dries.

#ampainting

Sketching new greens and light.

Looking south from Red Pike on a January afternoon a few years ago. A work in progress, trying to remember how to paint in oils.

#art #mountains #buttermere #lakedistrict

Lunchtime climbing in the sun. Did a few problems including this one, my favourite at Shipley Glen. But if I’m honest I mostly basked in the light ☀️

#climbing

Wharfedale morning.

Sketching Eagle Crag up Langstrath.

#lakedistrict #borrowdale #art

Thank you :)

Good thank you, hope you are too

Pastel sketch of Fleetwith Pike, reflections on Buttermere.

#lakedistrict #pastel

Ansel Adams in the age of ICE - High Country News Ansel Adams took one of his most famous nature photos while documenting the American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were imprisoned at Manzanar during World War II. Our country is both the…

The beloved photographer kept both beauty and injustice in the frame.

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Oil paintings and dry pastel paintings. I’ve been in a pastel kind of mood for over a year now. While I’m sure the urge to spread and mix oils with my pallet knife will return at some stage, right now I’m getting my fingers caked in multi-coloured pastel dust from all the sketching and blending.

These are a selection of the books I reference and quote from in ‘Think Again’. There are many more, not least Nan Shepherd’s ‘The Living Mountain’ and some of her poetry, along with journal articles and research papers too.

Books. 📚 Both reading and writing. As I’m getting close to a final draft of my new book, I’m finding myself reflecting as I complete the concluding chapters.

#amreading #amwriting #AI #intuition #art #mountains

At the Pools of Dee.

#cairngorms

A quick visit to the Lakes with Alanna and an evening climb of Helm Crag.

It’s 17 years to the day since I did the Bob Graham Round. Memories of a long, hot, beautiful day up and around the fells.

So awesome to be be back remembering and making new memories 🙂

#lakedistrict

‘Raven Crag’ a short story from my Banff shortlisted collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ has just been published over on @ukclimbing.com

A story of a woman who begins climbing after befriending a raven high up a mountain in the Lake District.

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‘Raven Crag’ a short story from my Banff shortlisted collection ‘Dreams of Lost Buttresses’ has just been published over on @ukclimbing.com

A story of a woman who begins climbing after befriending a raven high up a mountain in the Lake District.

www.ukclimbing.com/articles/lit...

Pastel sketch of Sasso Lungo in the Dolomites.

#dolomites #pastels

I’ve not painted for a looong time. Very early days for this one but I’m loving it already, even the beginning frustrations caused by nerves and impatience. I need to wait for it to dry a bit…

#ampainting #workinprogress

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A fleeting visit today but a what a day to go. Didn’t expect I’d get to the mountain and I’m still smiling :)

Unfortunately not - I fly back tomorrow. Some things are as they are - I’m on a work trip, managing to fit in a bit of exploring Seattle in between other stuff. So happy I’ve seen the mountain though - the photos may be rubbish but they will inspire paintings - I can see them already :)

Gazing at mountains. I do a lot of that these days. And what a mountain Rainier (or Tahoma, meaning mother of waters) is to look at. And with a bit of pink too, what beauty at 5:30 in the morning :)

I am going to have so much fun painting this mountain 🤩

The mountain is out.

I didn’t know it before I came to Seattle but for a lot of the time you don’t see the mountains from the city. One of my friends told me a volcano appears from time to time on the horizon, always dependent on the cloud and haze.

Slow time in the forest.

#bluebells

Definitely late forties now… cake as baked by my lovely daughter and there’s not much left 😋

#cake

Spotted in the Keswick Bookshop.

#mountainliterature