Ripponden (2024)

Original media: Original media: Inks, gouache, acrylics, watercolour, coloured pencil, gold leaf and gold thread.

Painted for 'Engineers & Chocolatiers' – a solo exhibition to celebrate Calderdale at Bankfield Museum, 2024.

This is the view that sums up Ripponden for me. I know it from the Calderdale Way, coming down from Norland Moor. On the day I drew this picture I’d just visited the children at Triangle School. We’d spent the morning making paper lanterns. It was February and cold and mizzly, but the edges of the trees were just starting to soften with the earliest signs of spring.

Available as a signed limited edition print, hand-finished with gold leaf and gold thread. All prints are mounted and can be posted, unless purchased framed.