Photograph taken at Egglestone Abbey near Barnard Castle in North Yorkshire. Built in the C13th as a monastery, it lies in beautiful ruins today and is run by English Heritage. A monochrome filter was used to focus on the tracery detail. View of the sky through a pair of crumbling arched windows with remnants of decorative tracery. Blue sky was overhead so look at the comments for the colour version. The walls have clear rectangular indentations where wooden beams would have been anchored back in the day. Well worth a visit!

Windows of the Soul
for #Two by #BlueSkyArtShow
and #ClassicMono

Couldn't decide on monochrome or colour for this one. Colour version in the comments.

#EastCoastKin #photography #EgglestoneAbbey #abbey #BarnardCastle #Yorkshire #windows #ruins #tracery
(iPhone camera)

Evening visit to Bowes Museum. Ian enjoyed his tour of the vaults. Me? Silent disco - class #BowesMuseum #BarnardCastle #Culture

Photograph taken looking through a window at Barnard Castle, towards the river and trees below in the autumn. Late afternoon sunlight hits the stone mullions. Semi-ruined walls above and wooden boards below. Not a fan of heights but forced myself up and up, on a hunch that there would be good photo opportunities at the top! Deliberately didn't look down at the boards underneath my feet in another hunch the drop below was visible...it was...I looked up from underneath!

History Illuminated
#BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Sunlight and #Sunshine

#EastCoastKin #photography #history #castle #autumn #BarnardCastle #CountyDurham
(iPhone camera)

In corner of church, maze laid out in dark wood on blonde.entry front right

#MazeMonday #BarnardCastle

Shout out for our local independent bookshop McNabs #BarnardCastle #WeekBforBooks #AlphabetChallenge

#LakeDistrict #watercolour paintings available from my studio in #BarnardCastle or by post within theUK. See my website www.annwhitfieldart.co.uk or contact me for more info.

High Cup Nick is the perfect destination for a new year's walk. This #watercolour painting is £250 from my studio in #BarnardCastle or by post within the UK. Contact me for more information.

Clouds above Thorngate.

The clouds above Thorngate.

#Durham #Clouds #BarnardCastle

Poster for Jessie Reid's UK tour with all dates on and portrait of Jessie

Tickets for Jessie Reid's first headline tour next February are on sale now ...

'Sublime new folk' - Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music.

#Rhayader #Stroud #Frome #London #Manchester #BarnardCastle #Southport #Sheffield #Corsham #Birmingham #Tywyn #livemusic #uktour #folkmusic #musicksky

Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham. December 2025.

Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham. December 2025.

The unremitting misery of NE England.

#grimupnorth
#bowesmuseum
#barnardcastle

Photograph taken looking through the fancy stone balustrade onto the perfect formal garden in front of The Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle. Crouched down on the steps to get this angle, so a little surprised they let me in! Two large, ageing stone balusters, take up most of the frame. Between them is a beautiful formal garden with green grass and low flowerbeds, with a fountain in the middle. In the distance are autumn trees, the gatehouse and a moody sky overhead through which the sun is starting to break through. Absolutely wonderful museum to visit and the local area is lovely too with lots to visit.

Between the Balustrade
for #Stunday

#EastCoastKin #photography #TheBowesMuseum #museum #BarnardCastle #CountyDurham #garden #autumn #stone

Apologies for previous posts getting the county wrong!
@thebowesmuseum.bsky.social

Photograph of an area of fabric storage in The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Vital part of looking after a textile collection and almost as fascinating as the collection itself. Yes, I surprised myself getting this excited about storage solutions! The museum has various areas where you can learn about how pieces are cleaned, stored and cared for. A large fluted, dark tinted glass door is drawn back to show rolls of wrapped textiles protected by cream fabric. To the bottom right of the image, the glass door has beautiful gold letter spelling out 'ROLLED'.

Care and Curation
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #UpholsteryAndTextiles

#EastCoastKin #photography #curation #textiles #textilescare #TheBowesMuseum #museum #BarnardCastle #NorthYorkshire
(Android phone camera)

@thebowesmuseum.bsky.social

Pre-kid, I rocked a dress like this. 1932 crêpe backed silk satin, sheath dress, cut to hug the body. Absolutely love it! Would love to pull a dress like this off again, in an exciting (and more forgiving) colour. Photograph showing a cream silk satin, floor length evening dress cut on the bias with twisted ropes of fabric providing interest around the neck and arm holes. On display in the textile collection at The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle. Technically not a palace but if you saw the building it was built in the style of one and it has a very fancy garden too. Well worth a visit and so much on display. Their storage methods of such amazing works are fascinating too!

Curve Hugger
for #PalacesAndGardens theme of #UpholsteryAndTextiles

#EastCoastKin #photography #fashion #textiles #sheathdress #silksatin #fabric #style #TheBowesMuseum #museum #BarnardCastle #NorthYorkshire
(Android phone camera)

@thebowesmuseum.bsky.social

Probably got #DominicCummings to do with for him, with his past experience of testing his eyesight driving to & from #BarnardCastle.

Photograph taken at Egglestone Abbey near Barnard Castle in North Yorkshire. Built in the C13th as a monastery, it lies in beautiful ruins today and is run by English Heritage. A rectangular stone window divided into three narrow, vertical apertures built into the stone wall. Looking out at the view of autumnal trees and lush green grass outside with blue sky and clouds overhead.

Simple Yet Effective
for #WindowsOnWednesday

#photography #autumn
#EgglestoneAbbey #abbey #BarnardCastle #Yorkshire #bluesky #ruins
(iPhone camera)

Invitation to visit open studio in Barnard Castle

First #openstudio for some time. #BarnardCastle #landscapepaintings #Teesdale #Durham

Photograph taken at Egglestone Abbey near Barnard Castle in North Yorkshire. Built in the C13th as a monastery, it lies in beautiful ruins today and is run by English Heritage. Sunlight floods through the crumbling arched windows throwing shadows onto the stone wall opposite as if windows exist there. Blue sky overhead and green grass around slab topped graves on the floor. Well worth a visit!

Ecclesiastical Shadows
for #Stunday and also for #AlphabetChallenge theme #WeekSforShadows

#EastCoastKin #photography
#shadows #EgglestoneAbbey #abbey #BarnardCastle #Yorkshire #bluesky #ruins
(iPhone camera)

Late afternoon at Barnard Castle. Destination of the odious Tory liar, Cummings when the pandemic walloped. Place itself was a wonderful day out - abbey, castle, art gallery. Photograph of a large tree in the midst of losing its leaves, growing out through a large area of missing castle wall. River below and blue sky above. Beautiful autumn colours and late afternoon sunlight.

Went to Get My Eyes Tested

#IfYouKnowYouKnow #Yorkshire #BarnardCastle #bluesky #autumn #trees #castle #river
(iPhone camera)

Surprise any of the #London natives haven’t been round to #DominicCummings house north of the river & taken good care of him back to #BarnardCastle, without prejudice.

Shafts of light create sun rays which are illuminating the golden autumnal colours on a tree beside a river.

This morning started off with thick fog which looked like it would thin and clear by late morning. This was just downstream of Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, UK as it began to burn off.

#autumn #fall #teesdale #countydurham #rivertees #landscapephotography #barnardcastle

Has he had an eye test recently? #barnardcastle

Evening sun behind the ruins of Egglestone Abbey on a green hill above the tree-lined river.

An oak tree with golden foliage frames a fence with green fields and trees beyond. The ruined abbey is just visible in top right corner.

The river Tees in the late afternoon sun.

Ruins of Egglestone Abbey in silhouette with long shadows on the grass.

Visited the ruins of #EgglestoneAbbey near #BarnardCastle earlier and had a stroll by the river Tees. Golden autumn weather again. Photos can’t begin to do the area justice. The foliage colours so beautiful this year. #CountyDurham

Terry enjoying a coffee at my exhibition at the Witham. #artexhibition #barnardcastle #durham

Cummings morals of an alley cat, worked for alley cat Boris Johnson, on a jolly to #barnardcastle to test his eyesight while we died in our droves during the pandemic.
I have it on good account he was behind the TFL graffiti slur. He’ll be very at home with Reform UK.

Mill falls sunrise earlier this week, Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK

#landscapephotography #teesdale #barnardcastle #sunrise #autumn #fall #countydurham #rivertees

In town today “Turn Barney Pink” #BarnardCastle #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPink

BARNARD CASTLE 2007.
The elegant facade of the Bowes Museum glows in the County Durham sunsine.
#BarnardCastle #BowesMuseum #architecture #heritage #museum
thebowesmuseum.org.uk

EVERY former Tory minister is unfit for public office #kleptocracy #partygate #PPE #barnardcastle #deletedwhatapps #windrush #brexshit

All framed up and ready to go! I hang the exhibition on Monday afternoon ready for opening on Tuesday. At the Witham Arts Centre in #BarnardCastle #artexhibition #landscapepaintings #Teesdale #CoDurham #art

Invitation to visit my art studio in Barnard Castle

I'm looking forward to the opening of my exhibition in #BarnardCastle in the Witham Arts centre on 30th September. Visitors are also welcome to visit my studio. #landscapepaintings #art #watercolours #watercolourpainting #northpennines #Teesdale #Cumbria