Luddenden Dean (2024)
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.
I love this view of Luddenden Dean! It always takes my breath away when driving out of Luddenden village and up towards Mount Tabor, but there’s nowhere to stop in the car. In search of perfect Calderdale views I walked from Wainstalls to Mount Tabor, and down a muddy field to Stocks Lane. I was freezing at the top of the hill, and then too warm in this sheltered spot where I stood and drew with my sketchbook resting on a moss covered dry stone wall. It was a spring day where the light moves fast. Different distant hills were being lit up in gold, and turning almost purple dark within half a minute. I love days like this; I think it’s a very Calderdale thing. To the left, in the bright patch, is Oats Royd Mill. Above it, in the far distance, is Stoodley Pike. Towards the right is Booth, with Booth cricket ground just visible through the trees. Behind that is Broadfolds, once the family home of the Murgatroyd family who owned Oats Royd Mill, and most of the Luddenden Valley. Midgley Moor is on the far right.
I love this view of Luddenden Dean! It always takes my breath away when driving out of Luddenden village and up towards Mount Tabor, but there’s nowhere to stop in the car. In search of perfect Calderdale views I walked from Wainstalls to Mount Tabor, and down a muddy field to Stocks Lane. I was freezing at the top of the hill, and then too warm in this sheltered spot where I stood and drew with my sketchbook resting on a moss covered dry stone wall. It was a spring day where the light moves fast. Different distant hills were being lit up in gold, and turning almost purple dark within half a minute. I love days like this; I think it’s a very Calderdale thing. To the left, in the bright patch, is Oats Royd Mill. Above it, in the far distance, is Stoodley Pike. Towards the right is Booth, with Booth cricket ground just visible through the trees. Behind that is Broadfolds, once the family home of the Murgatroyd family who owned Oats Royd Mill, and most of the Luddenden Valley. Midgley Moor is on the far right.
Available to buy as a mounted and signed limited edition print - unframed. Hand-finished with gold leaf and gold thread.
120cm x 62cm (including mount)
Limited print edition of 150
£360.00