Spring in Patterdale by William Heaton Cooper R.I. (1903 - 1995)

Spring in Patterdale by William Heaton Cooper R.I. (1903 - 1995)Here is the view looking down on Boredale Farm at the foot of Place Fell, and over the sweeping valley towards the wooded and hilly grounds of Patterdale Hall in the distance, which lays underneath the lower reaches of the ominous path up to the infamous Striding Edge, and the beckoning summit of Helvellyn. "Nowhere else do the contour lines fall with such broken and cliffy impetus into the floor of water" (The Lake Counties W. G. Collingwood, p178)

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2 Brush Pens for Paintable Stamp

which gives a sense of man's gentle predominance

expertly reflected in the water of the Tarn

vigorous drawings

of poet Charles Lloyd

God in relation to David Jones

Some of the earliest tabletop games

"On the day when I made this painting I had walked up from the lead mines

Mounted - 363 x 270mm / 14

The ink is intensely pigmented

Sprinkling Tarn has one of the most evocative of tarn names: from the Old Norse Prentibjornsterne – meaning 'sprenti' (to sprinkle) and 'branded Bjorn' (an outlaw)